If you are a photo snob, skip this post. We started the day on a side road off Camino Gaviotas on the way to Santa Marta. The habitat was good for different birds but worse for photography due to poor light under thick canopy most of the time. It was also very early in the morning.
Brown-capped Tyrannulet - this photo was basically black but I was able to lighten up enough that it is diagnostic.
White-bellied Antbird - it is a miracle I even got this shot. The bird happened to jump into a hole in the foliage and only I was seeing it out of a large group of people. I think most of them ended up seeing glimpses of it eventually.
Scrub Greenlet
Lance-tailed Manakin!
White-winged Becard
Lesson's Seedeater
Golden-fronted Greenlet record shot.
Pale-breasted Thrush
White-necked Puffbird
I was taking photos of this Orange-chinned Parakeet and had no idea a Blue Dacnis was photobombing until days later when I was looking through the photos.
One-colored Becard female....
And the male...
The Chivi Vireo is basically a local version of the Red-eyed Vireo.
Rufous-tailed Jacamar
Buff-breasted Wren
We stopped one more time at the same riverside restaurant Las Acacias that we stopped on the way to the Guajira and I finally got a decent Bicolored Wren pic.
This Orange-crowned Oriole was the only one I photographed the whole trip. Note the orange head is a different hue than the body.
Yellow-headed Caracara
Bare-eyed Pigeon
Blue-headed Parrot fly-by. I only just realized this was a species we did not have on the group list. It seems I was the only one who saw it. Most folks were probably eating when I saw it.
That afternoon we checked into a nice hotel in Santa Marta so we could leave early the next morning for the mountains. The hotel was nice but the birding was not too good. Most folks were relaxing and catching up on Zs but I was determined to not waste any time while in Colombia.
Yellow Oriole
Scaled Dove
Tropical Kingbird
Ruddy Ground Dove
Great Kiskadee
Great times! Next installment, the mountains!
Brown-capped Tyrannulet - this photo was basically black but I was able to lighten up enough that it is diagnostic.
White-bellied Antbird - it is a miracle I even got this shot. The bird happened to jump into a hole in the foliage and only I was seeing it out of a large group of people. I think most of them ended up seeing glimpses of it eventually.
Scrub Greenlet
Lance-tailed Manakin!
White-winged Becard
Lesson's Seedeater
Golden-fronted Greenlet record shot.
Pale-breasted Thrush
White-necked Puffbird
I was taking photos of this Orange-chinned Parakeet and had no idea a Blue Dacnis was photobombing until days later when I was looking through the photos.
One-colored Becard female....
And the male...
The Chivi Vireo is basically a local version of the Red-eyed Vireo.
Rufous-tailed Jacamar
Buff-breasted Wren
We stopped one more time at the same riverside restaurant Las Acacias that we stopped on the way to the Guajira and I finally got a decent Bicolored Wren pic.
This Orange-crowned Oriole was the only one I photographed the whole trip. Note the orange head is a different hue than the body.
Yellow-headed Caracara
Bare-eyed Pigeon
Blue-headed Parrot fly-by. I only just realized this was a species we did not have on the group list. It seems I was the only one who saw it. Most folks were probably eating when I saw it.
That afternoon we checked into a nice hotel in Santa Marta so we could leave early the next morning for the mountains. The hotel was nice but the birding was not too good. Most folks were relaxing and catching up on Zs but I was determined to not waste any time while in Colombia.
Yellow Oriole
Scaled Dove
Tropical Kingbird
Orange-chinned Parakeet
Ruddy Ground Dove
Great Kiskadee
