In January, we had a couple of guests that came to spend 4 days at Tranquilo Bay, after they had traveled around Panama for almost 2 weeks looking for birds. During part of their time with us they wanted to do some serious bird watching, but they also wanted to see some of the different tours we offered to our non-bird watching guests. On one of the days, another couple joined us for a trip to the mainland and we all had a lot of fun.

We had very good weather and the birds were cooperating. Some of the highlights of those days were: Snowy Cotinga, Nicaraguan Seed-Finch, Lineated Woodpeckers mating, at eye level, from our observation tower, several brown Jays, Band-backed Wren, and very good look, in more than one place of the very pretty White-crown Parrot. Those were just a few of the many wonderful birds we saw during the four days with this particular set of guests. In about three and a half days of birding this couple saw 183 of the 411 birds we had on our list at that time. You can download the list of the species we saw and heard during their visit here.