Trip Report – Costa Rica
Saturday, December 5th, 2009
While for the past number of years I have always traveled to Bosque Del Apache NWR around Thanksgiving to photograph Sandhill Cranes and Snow Geese the opportunities there have been awful the past few years so this year I headed back down to Costa Rica to do some more hummingbird photography. I spent some time around the San Jose area with people I have met there and then headed out to spend a few days at Rancho Natuural Lodge with Greg Basco. This lodge is in a different area of the country and the drive out was much easier than other I’ve previously visited. The roads are certainly in better condition. The lodge is a beautiful property and we had plenty of opportunities with the hummingbirds. Rancho Naturalista is known as one place to find the Snow Capped Hummingbird, which is quite small (may be the smallest hummingbird) unfortunately both the male and female eluded us. A female or two had been spotted around but they are routinely chased away from the feeders by some of the other larger species.