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I only have photos of 4 species of the many we saw on the night hike at Chachagua Rainforest Hotel, but any frog I can add to my collection is great for me and two of these are new to me. There are about 150 species of frogs in Costa Rica and my gallery Amphibians CR has 33+ species, some I’m unable to identify. Frogs are amazing! 🙂
Bad quality photos of 7 different frogs seen the other night, though it was still daylight for that Green & Black Poison Dart frog, just barely. 🙂
And a slide show of all seven . . .
Continue reading “7 Frogs from the Night Hike”
It was raining every night at El Silencio Lodge, so waiting would not have helped! 🙂 But I enjoy night hikes that are provided in most Costa Rica wilderness lodges and you do see thing not normally seen in the day time. We saw less on this one because of the rain and that also made photography with only a cell phone not super good, but here’s 6 shots that are samples of even more we would have seen if not raining. Daniel was my guide on this hike and he included two miradors (vistas) which were interesting at night and sorry I did not try to photograph the views, though again the rain made it more difficult with less moonlight and no stars. CLICK image to enlarge . . .
“Between every two pines there is a doorway to a new world.” ~John Muir
¡Pura Vida!
You might also like my Amphibians Gallery, most of which were photographed on Night Hikes all over Costa Rica! 🙂
Or see THIS TRIP GALLERY: 2020 El Silencio Lodge & Reserve.
Come join one of the guides at Selva Verde Lodge on a typical night hike in their Sarapiqui Private Reserve. Since people have not been able to visit them live, they put this”virtual night hike” on their YouTube Channel. One of the guides shows you the kinds of things I get to see live when I go on such night hikes at this and other lodges in Costa Rica. It is real and typical except for the short time of only 3 minutes! In real life there is more walking between the animals seen! 🙂
Featured image is from my Red-eyed Tree Frog Gallery and another night hike somewhere else (Danta Corcovado).
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And here’s the same guide on a DAYTIME TOUR of Selva Verde, Just be aware that in an hour or more tour you see a lot more wildlife than in these little 3 minute videos! But both are a taste of what I regularly see and photograph in my retirement in Costa Rica:
¡Pura Vida!
Last night I went on the lodge’s “Night Hike” with about 8 other guests. It was similar to most other lodge night hikes and I have learned that my big camera is too much trouble on a night hike, so depend on my cell phone for photos. In addition to these frogs I got some insects and tried to photograph a coral snake we saw but failed at that. One of these is a new species of frog for me, the Red Webbed Tree Frog which has red-colored webs between his fingers and toes. Look close and you can see them. Click image to enlarge.
¡Pura Vida!
You may also enjoy my Other Wildlife Gallery
and my 2019 Maquenque Lodge Trip Gallery
See also the lodge website: Maquenque Ecolodge
This was last night’s hike at Si Como No Greentique Wildlife Refuge and as with all night hikes, photography was difficult and our conscientious guide would not let us shine lights on sleeping birds or a couple of other animals. I would loved to have gotten a photo of the sleeping Kingfisher and the sleeping Gray-necked Wood Rail. We saw but could not photo a sloth and a Kinkajou (too high in tree & moving). None of these pix are particularly good, but they give an idea of what you see on night hikes all over Costa Rica. Though I think my Red-eyed Tree Frog, Glass Frog, & Bullfrog are pretty good. There were also a lot of insects, especially spiders & scorpions of which I got no useable photos.
“I often think that the night is more alive
and more richly colored than the day.”
~Vincent Van Gogh
¡Pura Vida!
See this TRIP GALLERY 2018 December Si Como No.
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| Masked Tree Frog Villa Blanca Cloud Forest Reserve Near San Ramon, Costa Rica |
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| Masked Tree Frog Villa Blanca Cloud Forest Reserve Near San Ramon, Costa Rica |
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| Masked Tree Frog Villa Blanca Cloud Forest Reserve Near San Ramon, Costa Rica |
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| Unknown Frog Villa Blanca Cloud Forest Reserve Near San Ramon, Costa Rica |
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| Slim-fingers Rain Frog Villa Blanca Cloud Forest Reserve Near San Ramon, Costa Rica |
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| Bullfrog (Really Big!) Villa Blanca Cloud Forest Reserve Near San Ramon, Costa Rica |
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| Pug-nosed Anole Villa Blanca Cloud Forest Reserve Near San Ramon, Costa Rica |
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| One of 3 Species of Walking Stick Insects Villa Blanca Cloud Forest Reserve Near San Ramon, Costa Rica |
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| One of 3 Species of Walking Stick Insects We Saw Villa Blanca Cloud Forest Reserve Near San Ramon, Costa Rica |
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| One of 3 Species of Walking Stick Insects We Saw Villa Blanca Cloud Forest Reserve Near San Ramon, Costa Rica |
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| Wolf Spider Villa Blanca Cloud Forest Reserve Near San Ramon, Costa Rica |
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| Forest Floor Millipede Villa Blanca Cloud Forest Reserve Near San Ramon, Costa Rica |
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| White-crowned Parrot Sleeping Villa Blanca Cloud Forest Reserve Near San Ramon, Costa Rica |
Obviously this night hike was dominated my many kinds of frogs. I do the night hike every time it is offered in one of these nature lodges and they are all very interesting and very different. On this trip we saw two snakes but I did not get a usable photo. We also saw some other kinds of frogs not shown here, lots of other insects, and heard even more. It was about 2 hours in the dark with our only light being flashlights, even for the photos, which explains partly why these photos aren’t so good. And this was unusual to not see a red-eyed tree frog, but we had the masked tree frogs which I guess you could call blue-eyed! 🙂 We also saw no mammals including no bats, no owls or other birds beyond the sleeping parrots. Each hike is unique!
My Trip Gallery on this visit
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| Levon helping another night hiker get wading boots. |
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| The red wood I thought was cedar is actually almond tree wood. |
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| Sleeping Brown Jay Monteverde, Costa Rica |
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| Sleeping Orange-bellied Trogon Monteverde, Costa Rica |
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| Sleeping Keel-billed Toucan Monteverde, Costa Rica |
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| Sleeping Skipper Butterfly Monteverde, Costa Rica |
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| A Strange Cloud Forest Fruit Eaten Only by Bats Monteverde, Costa Rica |
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| It Was Dark! Night Hike! Monteverde, Costa Rica |
We saw many other creatures that I could not get usable photos of, like a Margay cat, two snakes, army ants, leaf-cutter ants, other insects, and some other birds including a spectacled owl.
