It is our last day of the cloud forest birding, tomorrow we fly home. We made jokes all day about how we are going to have a hard time assimilating back into reality. No more having to wake up at 5am, no more beans & rice, no more insect repellent, no more bumpy dirt roads, and sadly no more tropical birds and plants.
We ended the trip on a high note - there will be a separate post. We found 226 species for the trip, 7 were added today, and 5 of those were lifers! Ii added 66 species to my life list from this trip.
It was cold (low 50’s), but sunny when we started our day, the clouds started drifting in just as we started our descent down the mountains, and 72° when we went to dinner after arriving in San Jose. Tomorrow we fly home.
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| Northern Emerald Toucanet - Avi found it for me |
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Slaty Flowerpiercer - notice the beak designed to pierce
a hole at the base of a flower to get to the nectar |
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Hairy Woodpecker with a very dirty beak from
pecking in the grass - same species that we have
in the Pacific Northwest |
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| Lesser Violetear |
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| Fiery-throated Hummingbird |
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| another view of the Slaty Flowerpiercer’s amazing beak |
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| bickering hummingbirds |
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| Black-billed Nightingale Thrush, |
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| Long-tailed Silky Flycatcher |
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I think those two hummingbirds are discussing
whether that bee is trying to steal their nectar |
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Talamanca Hummingbird on the left and
White-throated Mountain Gem female on the right |
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| White-throated Mountain Gem male - lifer! |
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