A “Catch All” post except for Rainforest Trail I’ll share tomorrow.
Each night many came early for dinner to visit & use the wifi. In addition to this dining room there was a lounge area below, all open-air, simple, rustic, and ecologically sound structurally.
After breakfast with friends from France, Italy, & New York City.
Hercules Beetle Celeste Mountain Lodge, Bijagua, Costa Rica
Hercules Beetle Celeste Mountain Lodge, Bijagua, Costa Rica
Chestnut-sided Warbler with Caught Insect in Rain Celeste Mountain Lodge, Bijagua, Costa Rica I did not include this photo with the other birds at the lodge.
Heliconia Celeste Mountain Lodge, Bijagua, Costa Rica
Heliconia Celeste Mountain Lodge, Bijagua, Costa Rica
Heliconia Celeste Mountain Lodge, Bijagua, Costa Rica
Hibiscus Celeste Mountain Lodge, Bijagua, Costa Rica
Heliconia Celeste Mountain Lodge, Bijagua, Costa Rica
Chestnut-headed Oropendola The other day I mistakenly called it a “Crested Oropendola,” which does not appear in this part of Costa Rica, only a few near Panama border in SW I’ve not seen this in Atenas, only the Montezuma Oropendola, a favorite! This one photographed at Rancho Naturalista, Tuis, Costa Rica
The following photos were made at CATIE campus near Turrialba, an agronomic program for research and education for all of Latin America farmers, headquartered in Costa Rica with a campus Trip Advisor reviews if planning to go. Cost is now $10 per visitor. It helped to have a good birding guide because he sees things I often miss! There were a lot of small forest birds I could not photograph because of light, distance and small size of birds. But some of the ones I got below are “first-timers” for me and that is good as my bird collection grows. here and one in San Jose. My guide at Rancho Naturalista, Harry, took 3 of us here for the morning of the 7th of Dec. It is a good birding place with a big pond or small lake and a Botanical Gardens with tropical plants from all over Latin America. This terrain is different than the lodge and has lots of possibilities. See the
Tropical Kingbird Too big for gray-capped or boat-bill flycatchers I believe. All three are colored the same and sometimes difficult to ID. CATIE Campus, Turrialba, Costa Rica
Northern Jacana, second in number only to egrets at the pond. CATIE Campus, Turrialba, Costa Rica
White-ringed Flycatcher, my first photo Like the Social Flycatcher except white on head makes a circle (ring) CATIE Campus, Turrialba, Costa Rica
Prothonotary Warbler, my first photo. CATIE Campus, Turrialba, Costa Rica
Keel-billed Toucan, always from a distance, Not easy for me to photograph. CATIE Campus, Turrialba, Costa Rica
Chestnut-sided Warbler, which I photographed again at lodge better This trip is my first time to photo this bird and twice at that! 🙂 CATIE Campus, Turrialba, Costa Rica
Chestnut-backed Antbird, not great photo but my first! CATIE Campus, Turrialba, Costa Rica
Common Tody-flycatcher, another 1st photo – A good day! 🙂 CATIE Campus, Turrialba, Costa Rica
Muscovy Duck, who we later observed mating 🙂 CATIE Campus, Turrialba, Costa Rica
Great-tailed Grackle, female, common all over Costa Rica CATIE Campus, Turrialba, Costa Rica
Baby Great Egrets, as this pond is a rookery for the Great Egret Though fluffy & black-billed like Snowy Egret, they are not! Note Mom’s black foot to left of baby head. Snowy’s have yellow feet. CATIE Campus, Turrialba, Costa Rica
Hoffman’s Woodpecker CATIE Campus, Turrialba, Costa Rica
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.~Joseph Addison, The Spectator, 1712
