Green-Crowned Brilliant (male II), Monteverde Cloudforest Reserve, Costa Rica, 2012 Another Green-Crowned Brilliant, the most cooperative of the hummingbirds in the garden, and certainly one of the finest. This image had a piece of string removed in post, and the blur on the rear leaf was increased, as well as the normal edits.
Green-Crowned Brilliant (male), Monteverde Cloudforest Reserve, Costa Rica, 2012 Another green-crowned brilliant at Monteverde’s hummingbird garden.
Green-Crowned Brilliant, Monteverde Cloudforest Reserve, Costa Rica, 2012 I may just post all photos of these Green-Crowned Brilliants all week, I enjoyed photographing them so much. . .
Green-Crowned Brilliant (juvenile?), Monteverde Cloudforest Reserve, Costa Rica, 2012 The male of the Green-Crowned Brilliant, Heliodoxa jacula, to go with yesterday’s female.
Green-Crowned Brilliant (female), Monteverde Cloudforest Reserve, Costa Rica, 2012 The female of the Green-Crowned Brilliant, Heliodoxa jacula, perched on a branch in the hummingbird garden at Monteverde Cloudforest Reserve.