Back to Costa Rica for the third time and what better way to start than in the Caribbean lowlands at the La Selva Research Station. We had a fair sprinkling of good birds on our way down to the lowlands including Black-bellied Hummingbirds at the La Paz Waterfall Gardens, the usual Sunbittern in residence on the river at Selva Verde but La Selva was as usual the best. The only trouble here is that it's hard to drag yourself along the approach road and into the forest what with Great Green Macaws and others flying over! Anyway we made it in eventually with great views of White-whiskered Puffbird, Broad-billed Motmot, Red-footed Plumeleteer and of course this Black-throated Trogon.
Wednesday, 21 February 2007
Black-throated Trogon at La Selva, Costa Rica Feb 2007.
Back to Costa Rica for the third time and what better way to start than in the Caribbean lowlands at the La Selva Research Station. We had a fair sprinkling of good birds on our way down to the lowlands including Black-bellied Hummingbirds at the La Paz Waterfall Gardens, the usual Sunbittern in residence on the river at Selva Verde but La Selva was as usual the best. The only trouble here is that it's hard to drag yourself along the approach road and into the forest what with Great Green Macaws and others flying over! Anyway we made it in eventually with great views of White-whiskered Puffbird, Broad-billed Motmot, Red-footed Plumeleteer and of course this Black-throated Trogon.
