Talari to the Sea and Cerro Lodge

 


We got up at dawn again, both to have a look at the nearby Rio General and for one last shot at the birds that can be seen from the observation deck/ dining area.

We are just in the foothills here, but we can still see the high central mountains

Rio General is very active, but no problem to kayak.

Dining and observation area, Talari Lodge

The birds here are becoming a little familiar:

Tennessee Warbler

Red Legged Honeycreeper

Great Kiskadee

Green Honeycreeper female

Another Red Legged Honeycreeper

Scarlet Rumped Tanager


Red Legged Honeycreeper female



Red Headed Barbet

Blue Gray Tanager


From Talari, we descended rapidly toward the sea, seeing birds in the changing habitats and ending with some actual shore birds. We hit the beach, at Linda Beach, which looked great for swimming. But we are birders not swimmers. We did have fun photographing a Two toed Sloth near the beach.

Ringed Kingfisher  We have been looking for the "Martin Pecheur" for a long time!

Red-crowned Woodpecker

Northern Jacana

Crested Caracara


Two (not three) Toed Sloth

Kms and kms of Oil Palm. These were put in after disease wiped out bananas. Bananas were put in after wiping out the original forest.

Mangrove Swallow

Not a monkey

At Linda Beach, lots of people came by motorcycle



Flowers that looked so much like plastic.

Dodie is getting to be quite a good shooter.


Lunch stop. This one was actually not outstanding.



Turquoise Brow Motmot (not Lesson's!) The Lesson's has shorter paddles.

Meadow Lark


Groove Billed Ani



Double Striped Thick Knee

We were told about the Scarlet Macaws near our "Cerro Lodge" in that they eat seeds in the forest by day, but these seeds contain toxins. They therefore fly to the mangroves to ingest healing clay, and then can be seen flying back to the forest. All that sounded pretty complicated, involving places that we have not yet been shown. Yet at the lodge I left Dodie to deal with Reception and strolled over to the observation deck. Looking out in my amazingly incompetent birder fashion, I saw nothing. That was until a Macaw screamed in my ear, "Hey stupid, over here!". "Where, what?!" was my standard reply, forcing him to scream again. And so I got the shots below, that no other hotshot in our group has. Once they were sure I had these, the Macaws flew off to the mangroves, or forest, or whatever, and were seen no more, today anyway!

Scarlet Macaw

Hey Mister, over here!



Tomorrow we have been advised to wear bug spray, long clothes, closed shoes, and such, for a walk in the steaming coastal jungle. They did not seem to mention an option of sticking in our huge air conditioned room. At least the fun tomorrow starts late - at 6  (??).


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