Hummingbirds
There are around 50 different hummingbird species in the Costa Rica guidebook, and they are mostly tiny, very mobile, fast flying and often feeding very high at the top of large flowering shrubs. When we first arrived in the country I didn’t really pay too much attention, thinking I would not be able to identify one from another. However, after a few days I began to tune in more and realised that actually I could, and even more astonishingly discovered that we could get some pretty good photos! The first and most common sighting was the Rufous-tailed Hummingbird, which we saw almost every day in a wide range of habitats. These were often the first bird I saw in the mornings as they nectared on low lying flowering shrubs around our accommodations. Helpfully they also often gave a high pitched call to draw attention to themselves. This shimmering female Green-breasted Mango was spotted sitting on her nest on the telephone wire shortly after we returned from our boat trip at Ma...