Travel: Panama & Costa Rica Day 11: Hummingbird Cafe
While we were touring Selvatura, I talked about the hummingbirds of the area with our tour guide Roy. He told me about a hummingbird café outside of the entrance of Monteverde Biological Reserve. It is free to enter and they have hummingbird feeders. He said he could talk with our driver to arrange for him to swing by before we went to our hotel. Our Spanish skills and our driver's English skills were mutually not good enough for us to work this out without a translator.
We spent a joyous 20 minutes at the café just observing and photographing the hummingbirds. Here is who we found!
The Violet Sabrewing is a large, aggressive hummingbird. When it came to the feeder the other birds cleared out. It is quite beautiful with its purped out color scheme!
A male Green-Crowned Brilliant sits on the branches. On the right most photo you can see a tiny patch of violet at its throat.
Some Green-Crowned Brilliants share the feeder with a Violet Ear. Notice the difference on these photos from the boy above. The Green-Crowned Brilliants here are female or juvenile.
