Costa Rica, dia uno

At long last, after years of thinking about it, we've arrived! One night in Santo Domingo just north of San Jose at the Hotel Bougainvillea with 8 acres of gardens featuring native plants.

Hotel Bougainvillea

Only a bit of casual birding and trouble identifying them with all these new species.

Hotel Bougainvillea

In lieu of a paper journal, I'll be modern and post some pictures of the hotel's garden and our very incomplete bird list:

• possible Social Flycatcher

• some sort of hummingbird (there are 52 species here!)

• White-winged Dove

• possible Rufous-naped Wren

• Clay-colored Robin

• Great-tailed Grackle

• flock of unidentified parrots

• bright yellowed-bellied bird on phone line - no clue on identification

Hotel Bougainvillea

Hotel Bougainvillea