Yesterday, I spent the morning of my next-to-last full day in this area at the Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve with four of my students. Despite our plans to be there at 7am (we got there a bit after 8am), and some late-trip punchiness and sniping amongst the students, it was a rather lovely hike, and I have many pictures to post once I have a more stable internet connection. We didn't hire a guide, though, and that was a mistake - through the entire hike, we saw nothing in the way of wildlife, not even the frogs and funky insects that M. and I saw on a night-hike there in the rain two weeks ago. At the end, I took them to the hummingbird gallery where M. and I had gone this past Saturday while we waited for F., our ever-reliable cab driver. F. eventually showed up, and we were getting into his taxi when he heard something, and told us we should get out to see it. What did he hear?
This is why I bought a 12x zoom lens - sorry for the fuzziness, but this is probably 35 feet up and 35 feet over (¿cómo se dice "hypotenuse" en español?) In the parking lot, we saw the famed quetzal, the plumed bird at the heart of Central American indigenous mythology (more info about the quetzal is online here: http://www.cloudforestalive.org/tour/qcam/quetzaldetails.htm). Sightings of the quetzal are not all that common, and I think this is a great way to wrap up our time in Monteverde.
Off to prepare a final exam...
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