Hummingbirds

For the next two days, we mainly concentrated with multi--flash hummingbirds set ups.  The first day took place at Bosque De Paz and the second day at Catarata Del Toro.  Bosque has a large covered open air platform, where Greg and José set up the multiflash stations.  We all took turns on a rotational basis for a half hour of time each session.  In between we could photograph the landscape or do macro photography.  Except for a break for lunch.  These sessions continued all day.

Violet Saberwing

Green Hermit

Green Hermit

 Purple-throated Mountain-gem

Green Hermit and Green-Crowned Brilliant

Green-Crowned Brilliant and Wasp

Catarata Del Toro is down the road and is noted for its impressive waterfall that drops 300 feet into an old extinct volcanic caldera.  Catarata Del Toro has a large open-air restaurant where we had permission to place our Hummingbird set setups taking over the left side of the restaurant.  Again, we photographed the hummingbirds, including species that do not come to the set ups at Bosque, on rotational basis.  In between we were able to photograph the landscape, and I also spent time photographing hummingbirds at a different feeder catching the hummingbirds sitting on branches four different appearances.  We also experimented with different backgrounds, including black and white.

Green-crowned Brilliant

Silhouette

Green Hermit

Green-crowned Brilliant

Black-bellied Hummingbird

Black-bellied Hummingbird

Black-bellied Hummingbird

Green-Violetear

In between our rotations we ate a great lunch.  During the afternoon, there was a rainstorm which allowed for different landscape photography.

Panorama At the Waterfall

The Waterfall

Finishing the day, we turn to Bosque De Paz for another great supper.  After talking over the day's experiences around the supper table, we returned to our rooms to get ready for another day of landscape and macro photography.

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My Diary of My Trip to Costa Rica. Episode Four

Black-bellied Hummingbird

After two great days photographing hummingbirds, we traveled to Catarata del Toro for another day of photographing hummingbird species that were not as common as at our lodge.  The species include the green hermit, black-bellied hummingbird, green thorntail and coppery:-headed emerald.  What makes this location so enjoyable is an impressive waterfall, that drops 300 feet into the caldera  of an extinct volcano.  There are lookout stations placed so that you can observe the volcano and take some excellent photographs.  A few of our group hiked down to the bottom, down 300+ stairs and then back again.  In order to accomplish this and so that the participants would miss out on the hummingbird photography, instead of a half-hour at the station photographing, we did an hour in the morning and in the afternoon.

Rufous-tailed Hummingbird

Black-bellied Hummingbird

Purple-throated Mountain-gem

Green Thorntail

Coppery-headed Emerald

I did a few macro photographs before the mosquitoes and rain drove me back inside.





We were also treated to an excellent lunch.  After finishing and packing all equipment up.  We returned to our lodge for our last evening meal. That evening the leaders present some how-to-do information, and afterwards it was  packing for the trip back to San Jose in the morning.
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