Along the forest trails it was not to admire the forest itself, massive pristine cloud forest, suitably drenched in cloud by the morning's end, with a multitude of bromeliads weighing heavy on the limbs of many of the trees, it appeared to be just brimming with life; and so it was. The most comical moment of the morning, was when an uber-tame Black Guan appeared on the path, and shortly after we had found it a tourist came blindly by, so we frantically called for him to stop for fear of flushing the bird off the track, only to see him casually stroll up to it, slip out his I-Phone and photograph it from inches away. It seems the birders were less clued up about the birds here than the "general" tourists! Another tame creature was a Slaty-backed Nightingale-Thrush which we tried to desperately to tease into the open, only for it to hop out onto the trail in the open when we had turned our backs on it for a moment! However, the tamest bird of the morning was arguably this Slate-throated Redstart (also called Whitestart, which refers to the white in the tail), which not only perched in the open but was so confident of our lack of threat he sung repeatedly to us...There may not have been an overwhelming amount of activity but what there was, was literally in our faces!
After this it was time to immerse ourselves with the Monteverde hummingbirds...
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