Yesterday I shared photos of the Yellow-crowned Night Heron and today the other 4 herons I photographed last week on Rio Tarcoles. A very good birding river! 🙂
And 4 More Herons on Rio Tarcoles
Maquenque Smaller Water Birds
Water birds are impressive and numerous all over Costa Rica with most of these found in all lowland waters on both the Pacific and Caribbean sides. I never tire of river trips or wetland visits because the surroundings are always changing and even though I see some of the same birds every time, they are never the same! At Maquenque I had both a river trip and lived for 5 days on lagoons that attract the same birds in these wetlands (el humedal en español) of the Caribbean Slopes of northern Costa Rica. A birding paradise!
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¡Pura Vida!
You may also enjoy my Costa Rica Birds Gallery
and my 2019 Maquenque Lodge Trip Gallery
See the lodge website: Maquenque Ecolodge
Cañon Negro Birds, Part 1
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| Squirrel Cuckoo Cañon Negro, Costa Rica |
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| Anhinga female Cañon Negro, Costa Rica |
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| Yellow-throated Toucan Cañon Negro, Costa Rica |
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| Green Heron Cañon Negro, Costa Rica |
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| Amazon Kingfisher female Cañon Negro, Costa Rica |
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| Boat-billed Heron Cañon Negro, Costa Rica |
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| Laughing Falcon Cañon Negro, Costa Rica |
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| Red-winged Blackbird Cañon Negro, Costa Rica |
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| Social Flycatcher building a nest Cañon Negro, Costa Rica |
And 9 more tomorrow night, then we start on Tenorio and more from the lodge. Tomorrow (Wed.) I ride the buses back to Atenas.
And my Birds photo gallery
Herons, Egrets & Ibis at Sarapiquí
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| Bare-throated Tiger Heron Puerto Viejo & Sarapiquí Rivers, Costa Rica |
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| Little Blue Heron Puerto Viejo & Sarapiquí Rivers, Costa Rica |
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| Great Blue Heron Puerto Viejo & Sarapiquí Rivers, Costa Rica |
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| Green Heron Puerto Viejo & Sarapiquí Rivers, Costa Rica |
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| Green Ibis Puerto Viejo & Sarapiquí Rivers, Costa Rica |
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| Cattle Egret Flying over Sarapiquí River, Selva Verde Lodge, Chilamate, Costa Rica Evening flight to roosting tree. |
I did two boat trips from the town of Puerto Viejo on the two rivers that merge near there, the Sarapiqui River and the Puerto Viejo River. The afternoon trip was not bad but the morning trip had more birds and they were somewhat different birds the two times.
See also my Photo Gallery of Costa Rica Birds
Tarcoles Birds – Post 1 of 2
I chose 28 photos of 24 species of birds I want to show the world, so here is the first 14, in no particular order other than camera numbering or in the order taken. 14 more tomorrow!
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| Roseate Spoonbill Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Roseate Spoonbill Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Rufous-naped Wren Tarcoles River, Costa Rica (This is the most common bird in my garden/yard. They’re in the wild too!) |
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| Great Blue Heron with Fish Just Caught Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Great Blue Heron Flying with Black-necked Stilt Flying Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Black-necked Stilt Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Solitary Sandpiper Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Green Heron Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Great-tailed Grackle male Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Snowy Egret Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Whimbrel Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Cattle Egret Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Yellow-crowned Night Heron Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Osprey with Fish! Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
These photos were all made by me on a 16 December 2016 float trip on the Tarcoles River, Costa Rica, this time with the Jungle Crocodile Safari which specializes in bird watching as opposed to a focus on crocodiles on most of the other companies. I also like Jose and the Jose’s Crocodile Tour, but his one finds more birds for you, about 35 species this trip, and provides a flyer for photo-identification of the birds. Plus if you take the 8:30 AM tour you will see more birds early AND you miss the tour bus crowds. There were just 4 of us plus our guide on our boat this time at 8:30 and when we returned we noticed that the next boat was packed full!
14 more bird photos tomorrow from this same trip.
And my constantly growing BIRDS Photo Gallery online
Egrets & Herons in Nicaragua
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| Snowy Egret flies in to Tricolored Heron Selva Negra Mountain Resort, Nicaragua |
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| Little Blue Heron, Lake Nicaragua at Granada |
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| Green Heron, Lake Nicaragua at Granada |
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| Black-crowned Night Heron, Lake Nicaragua at Granada |
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| Bare-throated Tiger Heron, Lake Nicaragua at Granada |
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| Tricolored Heron, Lake Nicaragua at Granada |
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| Snowy Egret, Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua |
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| Snowy Egret, Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua |
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| Great Egret, Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua |
“Patience” is what the egrets and herons seem to say to me!
The end of a thing is better than its beginning; The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
~Ecclesiastes 7:8 NKJV
First 9 Birds from Tarcoles River
I still haven’t processed all the bird photos from the 2-hour, pre-breakfast float on Tarcoles River last Saturday morning. Maybe I’ll finish them tomorrow, a week after the trip to a favorite place!
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| Boat-billed Heron, Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Black-bellied Whistling Duck, Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Cerulean Warbler, Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Mealy Parrot, Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Great Egret, Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Green Heron, Tarcoles River, Costa Rica (I’ve many photos of them, but none like this front view) |
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| Ringed Kingfisher, Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| White Ibis hanging out with Black Vultures, Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Black Vulture, Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
Wikipedia on Tarcoles River
It has been declared our most polluted river in Costa Rica, so birding may diminish here. But for now it is the closest place to my house I know of for this kind of birding and bird photography.
No matter how high a bird flies, it has to come down for water.
MORE BIRDS TOMORROW!
Last 4 Tarcoles Birds
You can see all the birds in my Tarcoles Gallery or wait until the last week of March when I’ll be at Tarcoles again with Kevin this time. Enjoy these then I’ll go back to blogging about life in Atenas.
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| White Ibis Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Brown Pelican Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Green Heron Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Northern Jacana Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
“The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.”
John Berry
John Berry
My Trip Advisor Review of this trip with photos!
I’ve been photographing birds in Costa Rica since January 2009 and have a special gallery of Costa Rica Birds, with more than 100 species presented alphabetically by English name.