We were up at 6am and met up on the verandah for a cup of tea. A Gray-necked Woodrail strolled out of the bushes and made it's way to the pond. Luis found a Sunbittern working it's way along the pebbles and boulders downriver which we scoped and then we made our way closer through the riding area but it had disappeared. We did see a lovely Blue Ground-dove and both Green and Amazon Kingfishers along the river and from the bridge.
We then set off for the drive to La Selva stopping for a Redwing Blackbird displaying on the fence and a Great Egret feeding in a pond.
We spent a bit of time in the visitor's centre buying an umbrella, which we were very glad of as we had several rain showers through the day, and looking at the things for sale before we met up with an american group that we had met earlier and spending some time looking for Snowy Cotinga which turned up in a distant tree. Good views through a scope but useless for photographs. Luis had heard about an owl that was roosting a short way up one of the trails so we set off to look for it. Along the way we saw a Slaty-tailed Trogon but just couldn't see the owl even though we were obviously in the right place.
On the way I stopped to reply to a chap looking for birds and missed a Teyra crossing the road. We also found a small lizard on the side of the path.
We returned to the centre and spent a bit of time watching a White-collared Manakin working it's way round a bush, we then took the bridge over the river to the scientific section meeting up with a friendly Howler Monkey on the support struts, a wandering Peccary and some colour ringed bats. Along one trail we found a Rufous-tailed Jacamar on a twig which was so close that I found it hard to find at first as I was looking much further back.
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We returned to meet up with a ranger who took us back to the owl site and pointed out the very difficult to see Vermiculated Screech Owl
We had a lovely lunch in the restaurant and came out to see large groups of Turkey Vultures migrating with a few Broad-winged and Swainson's Hawks as well as some very high falcons which we assumed to be American Kestrels.
We then crossed the bridge and walked through the scientific area, seeing several Crested Guans crossing the lawns.
We walked a trail and the loop but it was very quiet. We had to quicken our pace to get back to the bridge where we stood around and waited for a raucous screeching which heralded the fly over of a Great Green Macaw, although the views weren't very good. After dinner we walked down the road but didn't see anything other than fireflies dancing around the bushes. We did get 2 bat species on the detector.
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We then set off for the drive to La Selva stopping for a Redwing Blackbird displaying on the fence and a Great Egret feeding in a pond.
On the way I stopped to reply to a chap looking for birds and missed a Teyra crossing the road. We also found a small lizard on the side of the path.
We returned to the centre and spent a bit of time watching a White-collared Manakin working it's way round a bush, we then took the bridge over the river to the scientific section meeting up with a friendly Howler Monkey on the support struts, a wandering Peccary and some colour ringed bats. Along one trail we found a Rufous-tailed Jacamar on a twig which was so close that I found it hard to find at first as I was looking much further back.
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We returned to meet up with a ranger who took us back to the owl site and pointed out the very difficult to see Vermiculated Screech Owl
We then crossed the bridge and walked through the scientific area, seeing several Crested Guans crossing the lawns.
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