Costa Rica: J L's Favorites

This Blog was conceived with the idea of our family being able to share some of our adventures with anyone who would care to look at our photos and read of them.  

This will be my first attempt at writing and posting on the Blog created for us by our son, Cameron.  I don't have the gift of gab that some do, so my comments will be brief, or non-existent, as the case may be, at times.  However, I have wanted to find a way to share my passion at this stage in life and that is to locate and photograph the birds of the world to the extent possible.  I have a long, long way to go; however, it takes the first step, or in our case, the first trip, to begin this quest.  With my partner in life, my understanding and willing wife, Nancy, who also shares in my love of birding, we look forward to traveling.  We have been fortunate to visit a number of countries in the last six years or so, and some travel around the States.  As we venture out, I hope to continue to add to this Blog some of the photos we have taken.  I do not presume to be a Photographer, but rather, one who enjoys taking pictures of the birds I see when possible. 

Cameron has, and will, post on this Blog.  His day job(s) are in Hawaii.  He has a different perspective, usually for the better, regarding photography and other technical issues that keep his parents out of trouble and typically in good working order.  Not a birder per se, but willing to fill in for his Mom when she is off on another adventure with others.

Nancy will, I am sure, have her own input from time to time.  For the first time, we traveled to different locations this past May when she and her sister traveled to Italy while Cameron and I took in Costa Rica.

Daughter Courtney and family will also be able to contribute as they may want to share their travels and adventures.

My motto, which I have shared with those who have asked what I am up to these days, is "Where ever you are, there a bird will be." With that in mind, I aspire to go to as many places as possible.

I should also mention that we take pictures of anything that moves, and a lot of things that don't.  Therefore, we will also be adding pages to this Blog of the different animals, butterflies, bugs, snakes,  sunrises, sunsets, landscapes, etc., as may tickle our fancy.

NOW, a few photos of the birds of Costa Rica through May 7, 2014.

Brown Jay (tried to find in south Texas, but failed to do so)

                                                 Red-billed Pigeon

Lineated Woodpecker

Green Violet-ear

Rufous-tailed Hummingbird

Black-bellied Hummingbird

Green Thorntail

Purple-throated Mountain-gem

Green-crowned Brilliant

Violet Sabrewing

Green Violet-ear

Tropical Parula

Slaty-backed Nightingale-Thrush

Prong-billed Barbet

Palm Tanager

Common Bush-Tanager

Emerald Toucanet

Eastern Meadowlark

Swallow-tailed Kite

Collared Redstart

Ruddy-capped Nightingale-Thrush

Yellow-thighed Finch

Yellow-bellied Elania

Great-tailed Grackle

Great Egret

Grove-billed Ani

Northern Barred-Woodcreeper

Tropical Kingbird

Black-cheeked Woodpecker

Great Potoo

Spectacled Owl

Gray-necked Wood-Rail

Chestnut-colored Woodpecker

Green Honeycreeper (F)

Green Honeycreeper

Collared Aracari

Rufous-tailed Jacamar

Slaty-tailed Trogon

White-crowned Parrot

Violaceous Trogon

Cinnamon Becard

Snowy Continga

Black-faced Grosbeak

Black-throated Trogon

Rufous-breasted Motmot

Stripe-breasted Wren

Chestnut-colored Woodpecker

Shining Honeycreeper

Montezuma Oropendola

Paltry Tyrannulet

Bay Wren

Orange-billed Sparrow

Fasciated Antshrike

White-breasted Wood-Wren

Cocoa Woodcreeper

Pale-billed Woodpecker

Olive-crowned Yellowthroat

White-collared Manakin

Rufous-winged Woodpecker

Ruddy Ground-Dove

White-ringed Flycatcher

White-throated Magpie-Jay

Long-billed Hermit meets Stripe-throated Hermit

Red-legged Honeycreeper

Orange-bellied Trogon

Hepatic Tanager

Great Curassow (F)

                                                                Great Curassow

Golden-crowned Warbler

Black-headed Nightingale-Thrush

Golden-hooded Tanager

Stripe-throated Hermit

                                                             Bronze-tailed Plumeleteer

Dull-mantled Antbird

Scale-crested Pygmy-Tyrant

Crimson-collared Tanager

Tropical Pewee

Gray-headed Chachalaca

Chestnut-mandibled Toucan

Thicket Antpitta

Keel-billed Toucan

White-fronted Nunbird

Long-tailed Tyrant

Black-headed Saltator

Turquoise-browed Motmot

Masked Tityra

Long-tailed Manakin

Mangrove Yellow Warbler

Ground Cuckoo

Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl

Bare-throated Tiger-Heron

Chestnut-backed Antbird

Mangrove Vireo

Green Kingfisher

Common Black-Hawk

Dusky-capped Flycatcher

Rufous-browed Peppershrike

Cinnamon Hummingbird

Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher

Southern Lapwing

Scarlet Macaw

Yellow-naped Parrot

Double-striped Thick-knee

Brown Pelican

Roadside Hawk

Pacific Screech-Owl

Striped Owl

Black-and-White Owl

Collared Forest-Falcon

Rose-throated Becard

Orange-collared Manakin

Fiery-billed Aracari

Turkey Vulture

White-whiskered Puffbird

King Vulture

Yellow-headed Caracara

Barred Antshrike (F)

Barred Antshrike

Silver-throated Tanager

Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush

Turquoise Continga

Smooth-billed Ani

White-collared Seedeater

Black-headed Flycatcher

Golden-browed Chlorophonia

Black Phoebe

American Dipper

Acorn Woodpecker

Scarlet-thighed Dacnis

Tropical Screech-Owl

Hoffmann's Woodpecker

Resplendent Quetzal

Resplendent Quetzal

Resplendent Quetzal

Resplendent Quetzal