Despite the rain not ending until about 9AM, the early morning was really nice. I sat out on our balcony on a hard wooden chair, that was luxuriously soft when compared to the mattress, drank some Costa Rican coffee and listened to the rain as the birds flew about undeterred by a few sprinkles.
As a matter of fact, this Variable Seedeater even posed for a picture:
After another breakfast of..you guessed it...pancakes, rice, beans and scrambled eggs, we headed out for another loop around the trails. We went looking for the owl that we heard the night before but struck out. Luckily, we found lots of other critters.
Crested Guan:
Ground Anole:
The pot of gold at the end of the Waterfall trail:
In the garden were a pair of Great Kiskadees building a nest:
We found a Variegated Squirrel with its breakfast (what, no scrambled eggs?):
After lunch, we decided to hike up way to the top of the property. The trail crossed the river twice and while I managed to rock hop across, Karen wimped out and took off her shoes and socks and just waded across. I guess that's better than having wet shoes for the rest of the trip.
The rock hopping was worth it because we saw our first Great Black-hawk and the views of Arenal were some of the best that we had seen:
We even passed a Eucalyptus grove in really nice light:
Back in the garden, we finally got good looks at a bird with perhaps the funnest name ever. The Gray-headed Chachalaca:
Say it with me...CHA-CHA-LA-CA!
The night walk was a repeat of last night's route. But on the way, we heard the same owl calling as last night. This time we were able to pin point the location better and even heard a second owl calling back. We listened to this for about 5 minutes and were able to finally get a flashlight on one of the owls. The picture is lousy so I won't share it but we were able to ID the owls as Spectacled Owls. Nice...!
Tarantula:
The frog pond was alive again this evening with more Red-eyed Tree Frogs. (If you don't like these little guys, look away now...):
Ahem...
"Hey, buddy! What are you looking at!"
That's a nice way to end the day.
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