All good things must come to an end, and so it went with my birding  conference trip to Costa Rica.  I hiked the beach before lecture starte...

Any time a person goes to the tropics wishlist dreams of antpittas, tanagers, and toucans run rampant.  However, a bird I had on my radar th...

This is the view of a Great Black-backed Gull in clear overcast yesterday This was the view today with a 30mph NW wind ripping off the l...

As I mentioned last post, I arrived at Santa Rosa National Park at daybreak. I had the place entirely to myself and crossed paths only with ...

After not having a lot of luck at Santa Rosa NP the day before, I decided to try Palo Verde on my 2nd to last morning.  It was about 2-3 hou...

A trip to Costa Rica in November technically falls in what they optimistically call their Green Season.  aka Rainy season in verbiage not po...

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 ...