Costa Rica

 We took a birding trip to Costa Rica with Costa Rica Focus, a travel company for birders. We went to the Arenal Observatory lodge, Monteverde cloud forest and a place near, but not on the coast.

From the airport in San Jose we met our driver who took us to the Arenal Observatory lodge near La Fortuna and the volcano there. The second leg of the trip went from there around to Monteverde cloud forest and from there to a lodge near the coast.

The Restaurant at Avenal Observatory lodge. It overlooks the deck where they feed the birds.

One of the trails around the lodge.

The garden by the restaurant between our room and the restaurant.

Food presentation at the restaurant

The volcano is right off the deck but was always hidden by clouds

Great Currasaw male and female eating watermelon

Olive backed euphonia

Blue-gray tananger

Chestnut capped euphonia

Summer tananger

Pileated woodpecker

Great Kiskadee

Tree squirrel

Aracari

Oropendula

Golden crowned Tanager

Crested Guan

Ginger

Roadside hawk

Aracari

Aracari

Green honeycreeper

Emerald Tanager

Yellow throated euphonia

Banana

three toed sloth

Iguana

Chestnut-mandibled toucan

blue morpho

basilisk lizard

spider monkey

anhinga

trogon

Black-bellied whistling ducks

Howler monkey

Bats in a line

Green heron

basalisk lizard

amazon kingfisher

Scarlet-rumped tanager

Red-legged honey creeper

Green honey creeper

Coati

Spider monkey

bromeliad

yellow-throated euphonia

agouti

giant otter

Toucanet

Scythe billed creeper

Resplendent quetzel

Respledent quetzel

scythe-billed creeper

Violet eared hummingbird

Bananaquit

Violet eared hummingbird

saber wing hummingbird

Slate-throated redstart

Yellowish flycatcher

Lessons Motmot

Kingfisher

White-winged dove

scarlet macaw

Capuchin monkey

Crested Caracara

Thick-knees

Bromeileads

Gray-headed Tanager

Blue-capped Manakin

trogon

banded peacock

Wood stork

terns

tri-colored heron

Roadside hawk

Tiger heron

Frigate bird

white Ibis