Gray Hawk Archives - Retired in Costa Rica

July 18, 2024July 17, 2024

Immature Gray Hawk

Most mornings at Maquenque I walked from my cabin to breakfast around the Lagoon, through two little forests, and a corner of the farm looking for birds. One morning I saw this juvenile, young or immature Gray Hawk perched in a tree long enough for me to get several shots and in okay light! To see the different looks of Gray Hawks, go to my Gray Hawk Gallery with shots from several areas of Costa Rica. I did see a more mature Gray Hawk on another day, but in the shadows and my photo is not good enough to share here though in my gallery.

Immature Gray Hawk, Maquenque Eco Lodge, Boca Tapada, Costa Rica

¡Pura vida!

February 18, 2022February 19, 2022

Bird Portraits

Here’s the first five portraits with more coming, though all fifty-something birds I’ve photographed will not be good enough for what I’m calling a “portrait” or “a close-up” of just one bird. Plus other types of photos are coming from Maquenque over the next few days or week, even though I return home tomorrow.

**Gray Hawk** at Maquenque Ecolodge & Reserve, Boca Tapada, Costa Rica.

October 30, 2021October 29, 2021

FAVE BIRDS – Gray Hawk

I decided to pick only one of my many hawk photos and honestly, I’m not sure why I liked this one best. The Common Black Hawk is the one I’ve photographed the most with the Road Hawk a close second and I have some good photos of both. The Gray Hawk (eBird description) is common and sure of himself and seems determined in this photo. See others I’ve photographed in my Gray Hawk Gallery from many locations. And read below The Backstory on how and where I photographed this and the other Gray Hawks in my gallery.

February 11, 2018

Tapanti Birds

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Black Guan
Tapanti National Park, Costa Rica

Adult Gray Hawk
Tapanti National Park, Costa Rica
First Sighting for Me in Costa Rica (1 in Nicaragua)

Juvenile Gray Hawk
Tapanti National Park, Costa Rica

Female Collared Trogon
Tapanti National Park, Costa Rica
First Sighting for Me

Male Collared Trogon
Tapanti National Park, Costa Rica
First Sighting for Me

Chestnut-headed Oropendola in Poro Tree
Tapanti National Park, Costa Rica

Slaty Spinetail

Tapanti National Park, Costa Rica
First Sighting for Me

Red-faced Spinetail
Tapanti National Park, Costa Rica
First Sighting for Me

Common Chlorospingus
Tapanti National Park, Costa Rica
First Sighting for Me

Clay-colored Thrush or Yiqüirro
The National Bird of Costa Rica
Tapanti National Park, Costa Rica

Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Tapanti National Park, Costa Rica
First Sighting for Me (only Southern in the past)

Dusky-capped Flycatcher
Tapanti National Park, Costa Rica

Brown Jay
Tapanti National Park, Costa Rica

Passerini Tanagers, Male & 2 Females

Tapanti National Park, Costa Rica

“The sharp thrill of seeing them reminded me of childhood happiness, gifts under the Christmas tree, perhaps, a kind of euphoria we adults manage to shut out most of the time. This is why I bird-watch, to recapture what it’s like to live in this moment, right now.”

― Lynn Thomson, Birding with Yeats: A Mother’s Memoir

¡Pura Vida!

My photo gallery BIRDS

This exact same set of birds in my TRIPS photo gallery: Tapanti Birds

Or see all of my Orosi Trip photos in the TRIP Gallery: 2018-February 6-10–Orosi/Tapanti