18 March 2014 near Bosque de Paz, Costa Rica. After the birds and moths of yesterday, to the cloud forest. Many bromeliads and other epiphytes on the trees, as the photos show.
In the early morning, a clay-coloured thrush sang.
A black guan in a tree.
Many hummingbirds again.
A ruddy-capped nightingale-thrush crossing a forest path.
An eye-ringed flatbill on a branch.
A slate-throated redstart; singing.
Mantled howler monkeys call.
Another black guan in a tree.
A broad-winged hawk in another tree.
A great black hawk flying.
8:50: a torrent tyrranulet near the stream.
A boat-billed flycatcher in a tree.
A beautiful golden-browed chlorophonia again.
A caterpillar.
Will it become this butterfly? Or another butterfly, or a moth?
A spot-crowned woodcreeper climbs a tree.
A prong-billed barbet on a branch.
A common bush-tanager. A tropical parula.
Yellow-thighed finches in a tree.
A spangled-cheeked tanager. A species living in mountainous areas of Costa Rica and Panama only.
11:35: we are back. A Central American agouti across the stream.
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You were really able to see many of the birds and insects on your trek through the forest.
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I did see hundreds of bird species, of the 800-900 present in Costa Rica. As for insects, there are very many thousands of them in Costa Rica; most of which I did not see. And of those which I did see, I did not know most names, contrary to birds.
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