Another beautiful place that we visited on our Costa Rican adventure (and, once again, found out about courtesy of Gerald from Papa’s Place!) was The Nest Nature Center. It is a private wildlife refuge in Aguas Zarcas that is operated by a gentleman who is both a birder and a photographer, which means that he not only provided food, water, and shelter to draw in the birds, but he also had perches set up and a viewing platform to help get pretty pictures

Needless to say, I took a ton of shots there, but I’ll just share a few that haven’t been featured in any of my previous posts…like this Silver-throated Tanager, who is absolutely gorgeous!

We also saw a brilliant male Summer Tanager, a bird that sometimes summers in my own neck of the woods.

A White-collared Manakin (a bird we were told we might get a glimpse of if we went to the center) was hiding out in a bush…

…and then later flew into, and then out of, another bush. These little beauties don’t seem to sit still for long.

As I was sifting through the pictures I took at The Nest, trying to figure out which ones to share, I stumbled across the picture below and almost deleted it because it’s not a shot I thought I would use. But, when I looked it up in my picture bird app, it turns out it is the female White-collared Manakin.

I’m so glad I checked before just hitting the delete button!

But out of all the birds we saw in Costa Rica, my absolute favorite (hands down, not even a close second) was the Red-legged Honeycreeper.

I just fell in love with this little bird, who does look like he’s creeping when he moves along the branch.

He was perched, eyeing the bananas that were hanging overhead…

…and when the coast was clear, he flew up to grab a bite.

He just looks like a little blue bandit!

I think these four birds together make quite a colorful crew!