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The pictures are organized in the order in which we visited the lodges.

Rancho Naturalista had the best feeder setup, both for watching and for photography. There was fruit on brush in the yard and hummingbird feeders on the balcony. The first set are all in the vicinity of the feeders in the yard.

This next batch are from hikes around Rancho Naturalista. Rain and mud were sometimes challenging, but we had good picture opportunities nonetheless.

The final group of Rancho Naturalista pictures is of hummingbirds.

Savegre is at quite high altitude, over 7000 feet. It was very cold the first night, probably in the mid-40s. However, it was nice during the day. Because of the altitude, there were birds we didn't see elsewhere, such as Long-tailed Silky Flycatchers. Also, we saw a number of Resplendent Quetzals, the bird almost everyone wants to see when they visit Costa Rica.

Bosque de Paz was the third lodge we visited. There were platform seed feeders and hummingbird feeders. In addition, there were a number of nice trails.

Our last stop was the Monteverde preserve, where we stayed at the Trapp Family Lodge. That lodge is the closest to the preserve, so we were able to walk between the two places. We had a guide in the mornings, and we were able to do a nice afternoon hike that netted some wonderful birds. We saw nobody on the trail between the time we left the entrance area and the time we returned. It was quite windy the entire time we were there, and there were several rain showers. Showers kept us mostly confined to our room on the second afternoon.

This last pair were "digiscoped" through our guide's binoculars. He braced binoculars and camera on a small tree trunk.