2012.04.18-19
We agreed to go birding again with Marcello as we liked his quiet authoritative manner. He knew what he was doing and he had the patience to ensure that his clients saw what he saw.
This is us in action ...
Here are some of the birds which we saw, but obviously it was not always possible to take photos of all of the 47+ birds we managed to see during our stay at Mindo.
A beautiful S
wallow Tailed Kite.
A Turkey Vulture
A Rufous Motmot (photo taken through scope!)
The
Rufous Motmot picture above (beautifully cropped)!
A
Black-winged Saltator.
The Masked Trogon (male/macho) - from a distance.
And through the scope - what a difference it makes!
The Crimson-rumped Toucanet - its green colour blends in perfectly with the leaves making it quite difficult to see!
And in a garden near our hotel (Las Tangeras) we had a royal view of humming birds and tanagers being fed.
Lemon-rumped Tanagers (male = black with yellow at wing tips; female = yellow birds with white beak).
Blue-gray Tanager (obvious?!)
Bananaquit
And many more - a veritable feast of birds!
It is impossible to do justice to the birding which we did - so we'll have to go back once we've mastered our cameras better.
However, some of the other pleasures of Mindo are the orchids and other beautiful cloud forest species.
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