More adventures in bird photography

This isn't bad, exactly, just noisy and cropped from a much larger picture. I wasn't even trying to take a picture of a hummingbird, but basically in Monteverde any time you pointed a camera at something there was an excellent chance of finding a hummer in the frame. And I actually managed, however inadvertently, to capture its wings. In flight.

Unfortunately I can't tell you what kind of hummingbird this is—there are sixty species of hummingbird in Costa Rica, and “green” isn't dispositive.

Adventures in bird photography

The fails, I mean.

This is the bird I most hoped to see in Monteverde: the resplendent quetzal. And I did see four of them on the birding hike, three males and a female. The males were immature, so none of them had grown the famous tail feathers yet, and this female was the only one I managed to get a clear shot of.

...of her back. Still, I saw quetzals!