After a morning at Virgen Socorro I always spend an hour or so at Vista Cinchona before lunch. It's a great place with good views over some forest, waterfalls and best of all a great feeding station. These Silver-throated Tanagers are pretty common here but Red-headed and Prong-billed Barbets and Blue-throated (Emerald) Toucanets come to the station. I usually look around in the trees for Golden-browed Chlorophonia and on the ground below the balcony for Sooty-faced Finch but we were in for a real shock this time when a Buff-fronted Quail-Dove walked back into the forest below us!
Wednesday, 21 February 2007
Silver-throated Tanager, Costa Rica 6 February 2007.
After a morning at Virgen Socorro I always spend an hour or so at Vista Cinchona before lunch. It's a great place with good views over some forest, waterfalls and best of all a great feeding station. These Silver-throated Tanagers are pretty common here but Red-headed and Prong-billed Barbets and Blue-throated (Emerald) Toucanets come to the station. I usually look around in the trees for Golden-browed Chlorophonia and on the ground below the balcony for Sooty-faced Finch but we were in for a real shock this time when a Buff-fronted Quail-Dove walked back into the forest below us!
