Backyard birding caught on video!
This tanager decided that it could better reach the bananas upside down.
Listen and watch as a Cacique calls and feasts on ripening bananas.
Passerine’s Tanagers can often be found in our garden, feeding on bananas, calling and chasing each other.
Blue-gray Tanagers are common visitors to the garden and are often seen feeding on or around our banana plants. Right now there are many bananas fruiting! A great opportunity for close-up backyard birding.
Check out this red legged honeycreeper found feasting on a bunch of ripening bananas in the C & J gardens! This honeycreeper is joined by another bird species, and species interaction is a common sight here at C & J Cabinas. Playa Chiquita is an excellent spot for bird watching, because many different Costa Rican bird species are found here.
Costa Rica is home to more bird species (approximately 890) than huge areas such as Europe and North America. Of these, some 600 species are permanent residents. 
More than 200 species of migrant birds travel to Costa Rica every year, mostly from North America. From September through November, Costa Rica becomes a corridor for thousands of migrant birds, on their way from North America to South America and Panama. These birds migrate in order to spend the Northern winter at the tropics, where they share available food with resident species. Particularly in October, the passage of thousands of vultures and raptors (hawks, eagles, falcons and their kin) through the Caribbean region of Costa Rica is a spectacular phenomenon that attracts many bird watchers.
Birding Gallery (more photos coming soon!)
In our own backyard, we grow bananas, which provide an awesome opportunity for birding. Most of the time, the birds enjoy the bananas before we do!
Follow this link to watch Red-legged Honeycreepers feasting…
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5799869354450894532
We’ve seen the Green Honeycreeper before, but this is the first photograph we have captured. Notice the black mask, yellow bill and red eye in addition to it’s beautiful blue-green color. This beautiful male was seen feeding on our coconuts in our backyard.
