Casa Maria birds.....again

This blogging program has been doing strange things and won't let me name the birds beside the pictures so I will list them in order of appearance. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Violet fronted brilliant
Silver beaked tanager
Rufous browed peppershrike
Painted parakeet
Glittering throated emerald
Ferruginous pygmy owl
Cinereous becard
Chestnut crowned becard
Blue grey tanager

Birds at Casa Maria

Handsome fruiteater














White vented plumeletier





















Thick billed euphonia...the red on his forehead is from the pollen on the flowers he is foraging.













Thick billed euphonia















Swallow tanager











Speckled tanager

Palm tanager

Burnished buff tanager

Blue naped chlorophonia-the red on forehead is from the flower pollen

Bay headed tanager

Casa Maria

Casa Maria

We left Caracas and headed SW to Casa Maria, an inn with amazing vegetation designed to attract all things nature. The birding, accommodations and cuisine were second to none. http://www.bugparadise.com/menus/menu_en.html. We scoured the area looking for birds and were not disappointed. At one location we found a ferruginous pygmy owl that was being mobbed by 19 different species of birds, mainly tanagers and warblers. Norbert, the owner of Casa Maria is a biologist who has made a screened light to attract moths at night for him to study. The added bonus is that early in the morning birds come to the light for a feast. We were up early every morning to see what birds would come to the bug light. Probably our biggest surprise was one night we had a knock on the door at about 10pm to say a mottled owl was in the garden. He did not stay long and the pictures were not great but it was exciting to see him. We ended up with 134 species at his place and in the area.










Mottled Owl

At the bug light