otherwise known as Lajas Blancas. The road that is. The bird was Great. But we'll get to it a few pics down. We alternated walking and idling down the road in the half-truck and stopped when Domi spotted a Red-breasted Blackbird, a bird I've seen a few times but always at a distance. The full adult male has black where this one is streaked.
We had decent luck with swifts that morning with Lesser Swallow-tailed and these Short-tailed Swifts being unique for the trip
We were watching the swifts when Cathy spotted another new bird for the trip, a Cattle-tyrant.
It's a flycatcher that acted like a robin, was shaped like a thrasher, and colored like a Western Kingbird.
About an hour later Domi heard the other candidate for bird of the morning (with Red-billed Scythebill the other candidate), another one he'd been trolling for at intervals. It came right in to his tape this time, a Great Jacamar.
We enjoyed walkaway views of a bird I'd really hoped to see last year. We eventually headed back to camp, but not before Domi stopped the truck for a White-whiskered Puffbird we drove practically on top of.
We saw this bird at dusk last year and a few of us saw it on the trails at Canopy Camp, but this bird at point-blank range made it unanimous for the group.
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