This Palm Tanager seems to be contemplating the row of palms behind my Cecropia Tree and when he flies in them, I can no longer photograph him as he hides between the fronds. 🙂
See more in my Palm Tanager GALLERY.
¡Pura Vida!
Palm Contemplation
Birds at Banana Azul
Here’s photos of 8 species of birds I photographed at Hotel Banana Azul which is fewer than usual like everywhere has been this year! And there are 10 photos because the male and female Scarlet-rumped Tanager look like 2 different species 🙂 and the juvenile Tropical Kingbird looks like a different species from the adult, so I included a photo of each. These 8 are all fairly common species all over Costa Rica except the Wood-Rail which is only in wetlands or coastal rainforests like the location of Banana Azul where there has always been a family of Wood-Rails living in their garden by their lily pond. Note that I saw 9 totally different species at Gandoca-Manzanillo (link to those bird photos) and a photo of only one bird at Cahuita but it was my Lifer this trip. 🙂 Thus in this trip gallery there will be a total of 18 species of birds this year, which is fewer than usual but not bad! 🙂 I always get a lot of photos in the Caribbean side of Costa Rica!
5 Birds in the Canopy
With rain finally coming every afternoon, I’m also seeing a few more birds other than the Yigüirro (Clay-colored Thrush) singing his heart out to beg for rain says the tradition. Well, he finally succeeded, and though 5 species in one morning walk is an improvement, it is still not a lot of different birds compared to my past experience here. All were in the shadows of the canopy leaves of different trees with only this Yigüirro having direct light, but here’s the five birds I saw the other morning even if not good photos . . .
Tanagers at Maquenque
Here’s either 4 or 5 species of Tanagers I photographed at Maquenque Ecolodge and the reason for the uncertainty is that one photo is of a baby or young juvenile and one can’t be certain of the species unless with its mom. 🙂 Many different baby Tanagers will look like this . . .
Small Land Birds at Tortuguero
In case you thought there are only water birds at Tortuguero (Wetlands) National Park, remember the three species of toucans I’ve already posted and here are 5 species of small land birds I managed to catch, mostly at the lodge, and tomorrow I will share 4 more larger land birds including the endangered Green Macaw to finish out the 33 species of birds I photographed at Tortuguero, a really good birding spot! And there are several birds I photographed on other trips there that I did not get this time, plus much other wildlife like the River Otter on two other trips but not this time. Next to Corcovado NP, Tortuguero may have the highest concentration of wildlife of any other national park in Costa Rica (except maybe that inaccessible park that straddles the Panama border) with no public roads into it. You just have to work at getting photos of mostly elusive wildlife! A few lucky people have even seen a Jaguar there! 🙂
Bird Portraits 3
I had some tough choices to show only 5 more birds, but that is best for now and I will maybe skip a day while I go through other photos for some future posts from Maquenque. Then I will get back to blogs about our tranquil little farm town of Atenas. 🙂
Here’s my last 5 bird portraits . . .
Breakfast Color
These 4 species of birds were finding their breakfast as I ate mine on the patio of Hotel Banana Azul in Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica this morning. How fortunate I am to live and travel in such a beautiful, peaceful little country! ¡Pura Vida!
Breakfast at Banana Azul
“The sky’s gone blue: azure, the ocean bluer: cerulean, the trees are swirls of every hella freaking green on earth and bright thick eggy yellow is spilling over everything.”
― I’ll Give You the Sun
🙂
¡Pura Vida!
Maquenque Tanagers & Honeycreepers
These are the most beautiful little birds and I think this is some of my better shots yet of some of them, especially the Red-legged Honeycreeper & that Blue Dacnis with both shots being made at a cultural stop on our Rio San Carlos boat trip at a small farm which was a joy in addition to these two photos, relating to a simple small farm family. 🙂 Pura vida.
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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
Tanagers at Sarapiquí
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| Summer Tanager Selva Verde Lodge Sarapiquí, Chilamate, Costa Rica |
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| Yellow-winged Tanager Selva Verde Lodge Sarapiquí, Chilamate, Costa Rica |
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| Blue-gray Tanager Selva Verde Lodge Sarapiquí, Chilamate, Costa Rica |
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Palm Tanager
Selva Verde Lodge Sarapiquí, Chilamate, Costa Rica
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Passerini’s Tanager
Selva Verde Lodge Sarapiquí, Chilamate, Costa Rica
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| Gray-headed Tanager Selva Verde Lodge Sarapiquí, Chilamate, Costa Rica |
See also my Photo Gallery of Costa Rica Birds
Palm Tanager
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| Palm Tanager In my cecropia or yagrumo Tree These first two shots were made at lunch today on my terrace while the weaker 3rd photo made at breakfast yesterday was almost my only shot! When you keep trying there will be a better shot eventually! Hopefully! |
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| Palm Tanager In my terrace cecropia or yagrumo tree. Different shots show different aspects of a bird. |
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| Palm Tanager Makes a Good Landing! I love to catch a bird landing or taking off! These are on my terrace rail at breakfast. Not best light for photo. I make my identification with app and 2 books, my best call, not 100%! Made the day before the top two shots. Click for larger image. |
This is in the family of the more common Blue-gray Tanager that I’ve photographed many times and the book says has a similar song. This is my first time to photograph these guys.
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Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art. ~Izaak Walton