Now that I am wrapping up the photos from my week in Monteverde last week, I’m better realizing how good a trip it was! It was one of my best birding trips in recent years with useable photos of 44 different species of birds, 16 were first-time sightings for me or what birders call “Lifers.” See the 44 birds in the gallery:
2019 Monteverde BIRDS
My Lifer List This Trip
- Coppery-headed Emerald
- Magenta-throated Woodstar
- Ruddy Pigeon
- Buff-fronted Quail-Dove
- Golden-olive Woodpecker
- Paltry Tyrannulet
- Black-headed Tody-Flycatcher
- Long-tailed Manakin
- Azure-hooded Jay
- Ruddy-capped Nightingale-Thrush
- Swainson’s Thrush
- White-throated Thrush
- Lesser Greenlet
- Gray-crowned Yellowthroat
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak
- Black-thighed Grosbeak
The featured photo at top is of a Wilson’s Warbler. And I am now working on the other parts of my trip gallery like other wildlife, the hotel, flowers, etc. which will go much faster than my huge collection of bird photos! 🙂 It’s at 2019 April 7-13 — Monteverde, Costa Rica which the birds gallery is just one part of.
I am thankful that when the Quakers came from the states and founded the little mountain farming town of Monteverde they also had the foresight to start preserving the virgin forest around the town and that other ecologists came and continued the effort with some of the largest forest reserves in the world! Nature is the main attraction of Monteverde!
My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature.
~Claude Monet
¡Pura Vida!