A Day Of Birding In Bijagua, Costa Rica
Steve here. On our vacation to Guanacaste, Costa Rica, we spent the day November 6 doing a private birdwatching tour at Valle del Tapir nature park, Tapir Valley ( TapirValley.com ), in Bijagua (bee-HA-gwa), Costa Rica. The park is located near the Miravalles and Tenorio volcanoes. This was through On The Beach Tours, the tour company at the hotel ( OnTheBeachTours.com ). Our guide, Jose, was extremely knowledgeable; he could identify birds by sound and visually way up in the trees and the leaves and at a distance. We saw a stunning variety of species in just one day, all but one new ones on our life list. In addition to the ones here, there were several I wasn't able to get good shots of. The weather was variably sunny and rainy; it rained 4 times and cleared up 4 times while we were there. The park has several sheltered observation platforms, including one with a feeding station where bananas were set out. The shelters made the rain tolerable. The feeder attracted a number of b