We kicked off the morning with a morning bird walk in a country road near Monteverde.

Boat-billed Flycatcher

Kell-billed Toucan

Northern Emerald Toucanet

Orange-bellied Trogon

Tropical Kingbird

Yellow-throated Euphonia

It was interesting: we were headed through Monteverde when suddenly our driver pulls over and says he’s found a sloth for us. Apparently, our driver is fascinated with sloths and he really did find one as he drove through town. It was a Hoffman’s Two-toed Sloth, which our tour guide said we were lucky to get a good photo of.

We then headed over to Selvatura Park, a nature and adventure ecological park with over 850 acres of protected land. We toured the cloud forest via the park’s many suspension bridges that took us through and above the tree tops. Among the birds we saw were an adult male Three-wattled Bellbird and a Resplendent Quetzal that flew over us.

Three-wattled Bellbird artwork

Slaty-backed Nightingale Thrush

Silver-throated Tanager

Blue Morpho

Black-thighed Grosbeak

Black-faced Solitarie

juvenile Black Guan

I ate lunch in town at Amy’s cuisine, where I had a typical Costa Rican lunch, and then sat in on a bellbird conservation talk back at the hotel, and then ate once again at the restaurant.