Upton is taking his security seriously. The owl actually did stop a beachwalker.  The second time that is.  The bird flew in low off the ...

My first morning along the beach I was out before sunrise.  Of course since sunrise in Costa Rica was at 530am, effectively mountain time, t...

The conference was on the pacific coast of the Nicoya peninsula in the NW corner of the country, an area I'd never been.  It was much dr...

As I mentioned last post Three-striped Warbler had been a bird I'd hoped to see for some time but didn't come across until Montev...

I went back to Costa Rica this last week.  For a conference.  You know, higher learning.  I might have gone a day early to fit in the Montev...

Yesterday morning during a nice little push of Bonaparte's Gulls I picked up a speck of dark on the horizon through bins a half mile out...

unlike the one in the UP, these pics are from Costa Rica.  I'm not sure if I'll go after the UP Tropical.  I haven't had a day o...