Gray-crowned Rosy-finch on a #post, for Alan and Rob’s #BirdOfTheDay. Cheers!

Everyone loves Watermelon. Red-legged Honeycreeper, Green Honeycreeper, Tennessee Warbler. #birding Costa Rica

Another very accommodating Broad-billed Motmot, this one at Arenal Observatory Lodge, Costa Rica #birding

Emerald Tanager and Spectacled Owl were both new life species for our list. #Arenal #Birding

I resolved to post a #BirdOfTheDay pic taken *today* before I saw the topic. There are no ducks or moorhens up here on Arenal Volcano, Alahuela, Costa Rica. So I did my best with this Great Curassow. Cheers!

Rufous Motmot. La Selva, Costa Rica #birding

It's not easy being green. Orange-chinned Parakeet at Donde Cope #birding

Green Honeycreeper, Red-legged Honeycreeper and Shining Honeycreeper. #birding #CostaRica

I always take WAY too many pics of Aracaris. Such charismatic birds. And they take zero crap from the Oropendulas. #birding Donde Cope, Limon, Costa Rica

Y'all love a blue bird, so here's your chance to step outside your comfort zone and grow as a person. Green Honeycreeper. Like, follow, comment. Costa Rica #birding

Y'all love a blue bird, so here's your chance to step outside your comfort zone and grow as a person. Green Honeycreeper. Like, follow, comment. Costa Rica #birding

We took a little hike today up across the road from Selva Verde Lodge to the area where we had stayed in 2016 and were lucky enough to see a pair of Broad-billed Motmots standing guard of the trail. Costa Rica #birding

Y'all love a blue bird, so here's a Shining Honeycreeper visiting the feeder at lunch today, Selva Verde Lodge, Costa Rica #birding

My breakfast companion this morning at Selva Verde, Costa Rica. Keel-billed Toucan #birding

Giorgio Armani spring/summer 2023

Neotropic Cormorant silhouette from our cabin's balcony. Selva Verde Lodge, Sarapiqui, Costa Rica #birdin'

#RainyDayBirds is the alternative #BirdoftheDay selection from Alan and Rob. Here’s a Great Kiskadee suffering a storm. Cheers!

Red-headed Barbet female doing a classic over-the-shoulder Betty Grabel pose #birdbutt #SmokeyEye

Also at the Soda on the road to Selva Verde, near San Jose, Costa Rica. Mr and Mrs Red-legged Honeycreeper #birding

Travel day today in Costa Rica, but we stopped at a Soda (roadside restaurant) and had nioce views of thsi Crimson-collared Tanager at a fruit feeder. #birding

Fiery-throated Hummer is Fired Up! #birding.

Spangle-cheeked Tanager at Casa Dowii, Costa Rica. #Birding. All the best tanagers come to the fruit feeders.

Fiery-throated Hummingbirds thrive in the rainy highlands of Costa Rica. Paraiso Quetzal Colibri Garden, Cartago, Costa Rica #birding

Sorry to stop by with some joy, I'm pretty anxious myself too, but luckily I found the ducks I was looking for. Backlit which can be better for editing later on. Just some quick edits. 🪶

Interested in learning more about ebird, both creating useful records, and being able to use ebird data to answer questions of your own? Join us, as Lauren Harter shares how we can make the most of ebird in our birding! Wednesday, November 19, 6pm.

Gratuitous Silver-throated Tanager pic. #birding

Where's Waldo? I had some trouble getting a full shot of a Collared Redstart today. I'm hoping to have more opportunities. We are halfway through our Costa Rica #birding trip. Kudos to Pieter Westra of Aratinga Tours who made arrangements for car rental, guides and accommodations. #SelfTouring

Buffy-crowned Wood Partridge might be the prettiest chicken ever. Casa Dowii, #CostaRica #Birding

#BirdofTheDay is #StandingOnThings? Super! I had to dig through my shots from a few days ago to find this one: Cattle Egret on a cow. Cheers! !Pura Vida! #CostaRica

White-naped Brushfinch was a new life bird for both of us at Casa Dowii today. #birding Costa Rica

Y'all love a blue #bird! Buff-fronted Quail Dove, Casa Dowii, Costa Rica #birding

Silver-throated Tanager at Casa Dowii, Cartago, Costa Rica #birding

I hope I'm not late to Rob and Alan's #BirdOfTheDay theme, which I understand is "Taking off." Here is a Blue-throated Mountain Gem I spotted yesterday at Paraiso Quetzal's Hummingbird Gardens, about to be what we call a Se Fue bird. Cheers!

Peg-billed Finch is another Paramo species, and was our 350th #bird for Costa Rica and 1575th for the world. #lifer

Here's a fun Junco for my friend and Junco enthusiast, @crawlieswithcri.bsky.social Volcano Junco from above the tree line in the tropical tundra, or "Paramo" of Costa Rica, Parque Natcional Los Quetzales, Cerro Buenavista. Altitude 10,465'. I was huffing and puffing #birding

Golden-browed Euphonia was one of the reasons we came back to #bird Costa Rica again. Saw one this morning and it did not dissappoint.

Talamanca Hummingbirds were Magnificent Hummingbirds when last we visited. They are still magnificent despite the name change. This female was determined to get every last drop of nectar from this flower just outside our bungalow, just minutes ago. #birding #CostaRica Also: THOSE FEET!

This pair of Long-tailed Silky-flycatchers are never far apart as they roam the grounds of Paraiso Quetzal in Costa Rica's highlands. #birding I took these pictures les than an hour ago. I can hear a Lesser Violetear Hummingbird chirping constantlyu as I type this. Pura Vida.

We had our first-of-trip looks at Resplendent Quetzals today. They don't disappoint. Hoping for better photo opportunities tomorrow. Paraiso Quetzal, Costa Rica #birding

We didn't #bird the mountains of Costa Rica very much on our previous visit. At Paraiso Quetzal today we saw 10 new life species, including this pair of Black-and-yellow Silky-flycatchers.

Two new woodpeckers for the trip, Linneated and Black-cheeked. Tranki Garden, Cartago, Costa Rica. Black-cheeked was a new life list bird! #birding

Y'all love a blue bird, so here's Costa Rica's answer, a Blue-Gray Tanager. I can't get over how close the color is to our Mountain Bluebird. #Birding #Costarica

Keel-billed Toucan from the lower levels of RanchoNaturalista, Costa Rica #birding

A couple more #CostaRica #birds from today. Stripe-throated Hermit and Great Kiskadee. It rained like the dickens here, but we kept on #birding

This juvenile Northern Jacana hopes he will grow into his huge feet. Spoiler: He won't. But he will walk on water (lilies) #JesusBird #birding #CostaRica

Bananaquit on Porter Weed at Rancho Naturalista, Turialba, Costa Rica #birding

We went out to the Ag college near Turialba, Cartago, Costa Rica this morning and got caught in a downpour. My camera got so wet that instead of photos, I got a watercolor of this Boat-billed Heron. #birding

Pigeons? #BirdOfTheDay? Kelli and I saw a lifer Pigeon today, Red-billed Pigeon in Cartago, Costa Rica.

Gartered Violaceous Trogon seen today at Rancho Naturalista. Is violaceous even a real word? #birding #CostaRica

Thorntail Hummingbird, Turialba, Costa Rica. #birding