As we continued down the Montezuma Lodge road, the forest flocks slowed down but the feeders remained active and there were still plenty of things to look at including some beautiful butterflies and cool looking insects.
It is going to take some time to identify all the butterflies I saw.
Not to mention all the cool plants.
Beetles are among the most diverse orders of animals on the planet with over 400k species identified.
We also saw a couple Tarantulas.
The female Violet-tailed Sylphs are almost if not more beautiful than the males.
Masked Flowerpiercer with some bling.
Tawny-bellied Hermit
Dusky Chlorospingus
Cinnamon Flycatcher
So cute but so badass at the same time, look at that lightning bolt on his crown!
Collared Inca
Violet-tailed Sylph
Brown Inca
Velvet-purple Coronet
Empress Brilliant
A caterpillar that was at least 6 inches long and who's beauty rivals that of nudibranch species in the ocean.
Orange-breasted Fruiteater female.
Beryl-spangled Tanager
Tricolored Brushfinch
Brown Inca - The palm trees at one of the stops had some really photogenic perches.
Violet-tailed Sylph
Gold-ringed Tanager - this Colombian endemic is a speciality that people come to Montezuma for.
Chestnut-breasted Chlorophonia was an eye-popping addition to our list for the day.
Club-winged Manakin
Three-striped Warbler - it was interesting to find so many banded birds in the middle of nowhere in Colombia.
Sharpe's Wren
Black-chinned Mountain-tanager - like many of these high elevation western cordillera birds, they are near endemic and only cross over into Ecuador.
Glistening-green Tanager - sadly we never got close looks at this stunning tanager as it stayed high in the canopy.
Handsome Flycatcher
Fulvous-dotted Treerunner
In the same flock we also had a Pacific Tuftedcheek but I will spare you the horrible photo.
We made it back down the road at about 5:20pm so we had been birding for almost 12 hours! What do I do in this situation? Bird some more of course. I spent some time at my feeder and walking around the property.
Empress Brilliant
Black-throated Mango!
After dinner, a couple of us walked around in the dark looking for owls, but we found this guy instead.....
Common Potoo! I was hoping someone would have a good flashlight so I could get some really good pics, but we all had poor ones. Look at that big yellow eyeball!
We also heard Tropical Screech Owl but couldn't get our lights on it. What an awesome day!
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