My birding hikes are not until tomorrow, so these 20 species I got on my own and wanted to get them out before what I hope will be some new or different birds with Guide Nestor whom I’ve had on both of my previous trips here. He is good! They always ask if you have any target birds for the hike and I will tell him the same thing I did last year, “Yes, the Umbrella Bird and the Yellow-eared Toucanet.” These are both fairly rare birds and difficult to find in the thick forest and I want to add them to my collection. 🙂 But I won’t get my hopes up!
I just hope we don’t have rain tomorrow morning like we have had most of today. Here we are on the Caribbean Slope which tends to have more rain than the Pacific slope where I live. But it is still the beginning of the dry season here with less rain than they’ve had the last 6 months. We will bird from 6-8 AM, have breakfast, then the rest of the morning. So I’m hopeful with a half day with a birding guide I will get lots of birds!
Now a slide show of the last 24 hours of birds on my own with two shots of Scarlet-rumped Tanager because the male and female are totally different and two of the Brown Jay with one flying and the other perched; 22 shots of 20 species including my “lifer” I introduced yesterday:
Turkey Vulture 
Great Curassow Male 
Green Honeycreeper Female 
Palm Tanager 
Golden Hooded Tanager 
Montezuma Oropendola 
Clay-colored Thrush – Yigüirro 
Red-billed Pigeon 
Crested Guan 
Silver-throated Tanager 
Bananaquit 
Baltimore Oriole Female 
Blue-gray Tanager 
Yellow-throated Euphonia, Female 
Brown Jay 
Brown Jay 
Collared Aracari 
Buff-throated Saltator 
Tropical Kiingbird 
Emerald Tanager 
Scarlet-rumped Tanager Male 
Scarlet-rumped Tanager Female
See my Costa Rica Birds Gallery.
“The bird who dares to fall is the bird who learns to fly.”
¡Pura Vida!
