I love finding these Yellow Warblers in my garden and know that it is most likely they came here from North America.
See my Yellow Warbler Gallery.
¡Pura Vida!
Yellow Warbler
Tropical Kingbird
A favorite of mine among the many birds found only in Central & South America, the Tropical Kingbird, Tyrannus melancholicus (my gallery link). One of the many wild birds that seem to like power lines for perching. And that can make it easy to photograph, depending on the sunlight of course! 🙂
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Yellow-crowned Euphonia
This is the first time I’ve seen any Euphonia in quite a while, maybe more than a year and usually somewhere else other than my garden. And I got both the male and the female, though the male was in the shadows and thus not as good a photo.
¡Pura Vida!
See more in my Yellow-crowned Euphonia Gallery where I have photos from 3 other locations, with this being the first of this species in my garden.
“A longing fulfilled . . .”
“Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.” ~Proverbs 13:12
Arenal Volcano National Park, Alajuela, Costa Rica
My blog/website administrative page has a bucket for “Drafts” and occasionally I put something in there that I think I might work into a blog post later (like yesterday’s). Back in 2022 I placed the above quote from Proverbs that I picked from one of my Daily Bible Readings to comment on later and here I am, about 3 years later, commenting on it (with photos!). 🙂
Continue reading ““A longing fulfilled . . .””Gray-headed Chachalaca
This large bird usually moves around my trees in groups or families and always “chattering.” 🙂 Here in a Nance Tree. See more photos in my gallery: Gray-headed Chachalaca.
Punta Leona Trip Gallery . . .
. . . is finished and ready for visits! Just click the gallery image or go to this web address: https://charliedoggett.smugmug.com/TRIPS/2025-12-23-27-Punta-Leona
Red-crowned Woodpecker
This Red-crowned Woodpecker female (my gallery link) at Punta Leona is using whatever source of insects she can find in her environment. 🙂 And for what it is worth, this is my first sighting of this particular woodpecker and will be a “lifer” on eBird for me. It is not as common as the very similar Hoffman’s Woodpecker.
¡Pura Vida!
Cinnamon-bellied Saltator
The Cinnamon-bellied Saltator – Saltator grandis (my gallery link) as seen at Hotel Punta Leona was eating a flower (or maybe taking it to his/her nest?).
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Crested Guan
One of the good things about Punta Leona is that there are many species of bird and I got only 11 this trip compared to 21 species on my 2019 visit there. Of course the big turkey-sized Crested Guan (my gallery link) is a favorite of many of the foreign tourists. Not good lighting for this shot, but you can see better photos in the above linked gallery from all over Costa Rica.
¡Pura Vida!
Scarlet Macaw
The usually slow internet was completely down yesterday, so late on this post. The Scarlet Macaw (my gallery link), or Lapas Roja en español, is kind of a signature bird for Punta Leona since they have nesting boxes with continuous video coverage online of several of the boxes where you can watch the babies grow up and leave their nest. But the birds are all over the property and this shot was made about one block from my hotel room.
¡Pura Vida!