Beautiful birds right in town, 20 minutes from the airport!
Exhausted from travel and relieved to have managed to pick up the car and get checked into the hotel for that night without speaking Spanish, I relaxed by spending several minutes photographing a Tropical Kingbird busily hunting insects.
Melodious Blackbirds (so many different calls!) were ubiquitous. The brown one is a female.
I was super excited to see a Blue-grey tanager on my first day, never imagining how many more I would see when we got to the Osa Peninsula.
The next morning, with bright sunshine, our adventures began. Iguanas may be all around in CR but not where I come from! This guy was clearly very comfortable on the hotel grounds, hanging out in a tree while we had breakfast and then having his own breakfast while we packed up to head to the Rain Forest.
Two Kiskadees having a conversation, as I imagine it.
Also on the grounds was a Roadside Hawk preening in the early sunlight, many White-winged Pigeons, Rufous-naped wrens, and small lizards (this one climbing in and out of a pipe.)
On our travels to the Monteverde region, my nature-loving travel companion, Jackie, spotted a tree full of parrots which I only saw as they were flying away, a cloud of green!
