Whilst staying at Selva Verde we visited La Selva Biological Field Station. We had great views of Great Green Macaw here.
Great Green Macaw
Rufous-tailed Hummingbird
Broad-billed Motmot
Pale-billed Woodpecker
Keel-billed Toucan
Slaty-tailed Trogon
Crested Guan
Whilst staying at Selva Verde we went out on a trip to the Caribbean Foothills where we had an interesting walk down a valley to a river seeing many birds on the way. We then went to a cafe with bird feeders and a great view of the San Fernando Waterfall, there were great birds here including Emerald Toucanets, Prong-billed Barbets and Violet Sabrewing and Coppery-headed Emerald hummingbirds. We then visited stakeouts for Spectacled Owl and Great Potoo. Our last visit of the day was to someones house who had a small nature reserve in his garden where we saw Green Ibis, Gray-cowled Wood-rail and a Three-toed Sloth with a baby.
Violet Sabrewing
Prong-billed Barbet
Emerald Toucanet
Spectacled Owl
Grey-cowled Wood-rail
Green Ibis
Great Potoo
Fasciated Tiger-Heron
We spent part of our second day travelling to the Selva Verde Reserve in the Caribbean Lowlands. We saw a few birds on the way such as White Hawk, Black-faced Grosbeak and several species of hummingbirds on one of our stops on the way. We stayed at this reserve for four nights. The bird table at the reserve was always popular with birds and photographers. The Sarapiqui river was right next to the selva Verde Lodge and a variety of birds could be seen along it and from a boat trip down river.
Black-faced Grosbeak
Groove-billed Ani
Streak-headed Woodcreeper
Barred Antshrike
Summer Tanager & Baltimore Oriole
Green Honeycreeper
Male and female Green Honeycreepers
Wood Thrush
Black-cowled Oriole
Crimson-collared Tanager
Red Throated Ant-Tanager
Rufous Motmot
Bare-throated Tiger-Heron
Blue-black Grosbeak
A great trip to Costa Rica with my brother from 23/2/2019 – 10/3/2019. We were on a trip arranged by Motmot Travel. It was a small group tour with a guide and driver. Our first and last destination was the Bougainvillea Hotel which is about 20 minutes away from San Jose airport. We had a three hour delay at Gatwick and it took about 3 hours to get through customs in Costa Rica so it was dark when we arrived at the hotel. It would be the next morning before we could explore the fantastic garden at the hotel. Sunrise is about 5.30am and sunset at 5.30pm every day in Costa Rica as it is so close to the equator. We were up and drinking coffee at 5.15am awaiting sunrise – this was to be the same each day from now on – it may have seemed early to us but it is just the start of the day in Costa Rica. The garden has a nice selection of birds.
Lesson’s Motmot
Blue-grey Tanager
White-eared Ground-sparrow
Inca Dove
White-winged Dove
Hoffman’s Woodpecker
A trip to Northants, firstly to Pitsford Reservoir for the Ring-necked Duck then the nearby Hanging Houghton for the Great Grey Shrike.
Ring-necked Duck
Great Grey Shrike
Luton won convincingly away at Gillingham with a final score of Gillingham 1 Luton Town 3. The away end at Gillingham is made out of scaffolding and has no roof but luckily the forecast for heavy rain did not materialise. We then went to Alexandra Palace to see Slaves after the match. A good day out.
I went to Norfolk to see this this bird at Salthouse on 27/10/2018. It was widely thought to be a Stejneger’s Stonechat and a poo sample had been collected for DNA testing. The results have now been published and it is a Stejneger’s. Not sure how you pronounce it however!
Overall probably a bit fortunate to get a draw, but we battled for a draw which was made even more difficult when Danny Hylton was sent off in the second half.
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