Costa Rica Day two

7th January 2022

I observed a few new species today in Parque National Park including this Toby Motmot. A sought after rarity in these parts and only found in this area out of the whole of Costa Rica

Yesterday it felt so good to be back on a big ole jumbo jet after almost two years years of no traveling. I was on a direct flight from Gatwick to Liberia for my third visit to Costa Rica. As the plane had just left Cornwall over the Atlantic, I caught a glimpse of my home as we flew just north of Scilly. At Liberia Airport, the first species to see were 2 Blue and White Swallow hawking near to the buildings and when I arrived at my digs just before dark, I was welcomed by some 60-70 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher coming into roost in a large tree just at the entrance at the hostel I was staying at in the city. The following morning I was up early and at 9.00, I was birding 0n the tarmac path at Parque National Park just NE of Liberia. In the first hour it was dead with a single Grey Hawk out above the open area. It was another 30 minutes when at last I saw somethin and it was a new species. Wood Thrush! In fact there were two feeding with 6 Swainson’s Thrush viewed from the path. I decided to break into the undergrowth and leave the trail. It paid off and birds were all over the shop. I stayed in one spot for nearly two hours and including the thrushes there were also a single Long-billed Gnatwren, 6 Rufus-Crowned Warbler, 6 Spotted Antbird, 2 Rufus Woodcreeper, 2 Blue-crowned Motmot, 2 Yellow-throated Euphonia, 2 White-tipped Dove and 4 Grey-headed Tanager. Another tanager was the uncommon Red-crowned Ant-tanager. A single Golden-crowned Warbler and Lesser Greenlet moved through followed by yank warblers including single Kentucky, Worm-eating and Black and White Warbler a Lesser Greenlet. A Yellow-bellied Flycatcher briefly paused nearby but the best bird was a Tody Motmot. Pretty rare species and I was very lucky to come across it.

If I’ve mis- identified any of the species below, then please let me know so I can correct it

Up to 2 Wood Thrush were feeding with the Swainson’s Thrush

One of the 6 Swainson’s Thrush

There were 2 Rusty Woodcreeper and this individual would flick around at the base of the trees only meters away from me

Worm eating Warbler

Kentucky Warbler The two above species I’ve seen before while in Costa Rica over ten years ago

While Black and White Warbler I’ve seen in a few countries including three back home on Scilly

Lesser Greenlet

Record shot of the Golden-crowned Warbler that flashed through

This Yellow-bellied Flycatcher I only saw very briefly before it disappeared

I could only get this record shot of the Red-crowned Ant-tanager as kept in the dark

The small number of Spotted Antbirds that I came across showed off superbly at very close range

My third Blue-crowned Motmot of the day was low down just off the side of the main path

But the highlight was the much smaller Toby Motmot that popped up on and off in the two hours that I was hanging around

It was early afternoon when I ventured back out onto the main path and a short walk on and I bumped into a party of 5 Great Curassow including a single male. While taking pics of a Spotted Antbird, a Cocoa Woodcreeper showed well briefly before making it’s way up the trunk of the tree it was on. Eventually I made it back to the main entrance where it’s more open with large fields. In the surrounding trees were Baltimore Oriole, including stunning males, vocal Hoffmann’s Woodpecker and in the car park as I was just about to leave, some 20 White-throated Magpie Jay.

Cocoa Woodcreeper briefly showed by the main path

This black male Great Curassow was keeping close to the 4 females it was hanging out with

A group of Baltimore Oriole including up to 3 cracking males including this one

The light was just hanging on when I was joined by some beautiful White-throated Magpie Jays

Parque national Park

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