Day 5 in Costa Rica

Today we left Earth University and traveled to Tirimbina Rainforest Lodge.  We had a tour of the rainforest with a guide.  Got to see the Honduran White Bats that make a tent out of large leaves.  Later went on a demonstration of how they make chocolate from the Cocoa nuts.  The first group of photos was from the morning walk at Earth U. and the second group at Tirimbina.

 Pale-billed Woodpecker

 Black-striped Sparrow

 Red-rumped Tanager

Roadside hawk - That is its real common name.

Crested Caracara

Start of Tirimbina photos

Heliconias are growing wild everywhere

 White-collared Manakin nest with female

 Rufous-tailed Hummingbird

 Yellow flowering tree - no leaves just yellow blossoms

Chestnut-headed Oropendolas - Different species

Blue Jeans Frog - One of the poison dart frogs

 Passion vine flower on the rainforest floor

 Leaf cutting ants

White-whiskered Puffbird

 Broad-billed Motmots

Agouti in the rainforest

Bats from the research presentation that we had at night.  Large diversity of bats in Costa Rica including insect eater, fruit eaters, fishing bats and vampire bats.