Joppa Flats Volunteer Trip to Costa Rica
July 2009

Rancho Naturalista, 7/14-16

We stayed here two nights, enjoying the great birding, great food, and scenery of
the mid-elevation Caribbean slope.

Birds


Blue-gray Tanager


Banana-feeder full of tanagers


Brown Violet-ear


Buff-throated Saltator


Common Tody-Flycatcher


Crimson-collared Tanager


Golden-hooded Tanager


Golden-hooded Tanager at Nest


Gray-headed Chachalaca


Great Kiskadee


Green-breasted Mango


Green-crowned Brilliant


Black-cheeked Woodpecker


Montezuma Oropendola


Orange-billed Sparrow


Passerini's Tanagers


Female Passerini's Tanager feeding young


Rufous-tailed Hummingbird


Snowcap


Snowcap


Tawny-chested Flycatcher



Violet-crowned Woodnymph


Violet-headed Hummingbird


White-necked Jacobin

Other Taxa

Cattleheart sp.
Cattleheart sp.

light sheet in the forest
Light-sheet

moths
moths
moths

People, Places, and Things

watching for hummers
Staking out a Hummer Feeding Station

Snowcap sign
Guess what we were looking for?

time to dry off
Retreating to the Veranda

relaxing
El Jefe and Marsha


Did I mention that we saw Snowcaps?

 

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