10,000 Birds
JUNE 23, 2022
San Francisco averages two-tenths of an inch for the month, while San Jose only averages half that much. I had set aside the morning of Sunday, June 10th to cross the San Francisco Peninsula to the Pacific Ocean town of Half Moon Bay, a mere 25 minute drive away, for a few hours of birding. The Song Sparrows were wet.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 4, 2014
As soon as you leave the airport near San Jose, unless you are coming from the southeastern states during the summer months, you won’t help but notice the higher level of humidity. San Jose Traffic : Ouch! Most birding time in Costa Rica is spent away from San Jose so no problem there.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 24, 2018
For example, we might just enjoy the calls and antics of those White-throated Sparrows while searching for a Harris’s. This is how we saw 300 plus species in three days on day trips out of the San Jose area and it’s only one of several options: High and middle elevations. A day in the Carara area.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 1, 2018
I sample birding on Poas more often than at other sites in Costa Rica because it’s close to home and makes for a worthwhile guided day trip from the San Jose area. Cabanis’s Ground-Sparrow. Recently, while guiding on the slopes of Poas, without too much effort, we had more than a hundred species.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 26, 2017
The disadvantage of the situation is obvious, but the advantage is less obvious: beside a few egrets and shorebirds, a sparrow and a pigeon, every bird is a lifer to me! Back to the question, how to learn them?
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 8, 2018
Migrant species are around, rarities are waiting to be found (such as, believe it or not, Lincoln’s Sparrow ), and, most of all, we have Christmas Counts to attend to. It’s busy on the birding side of things as well. The counts act as our end of the year birding festivities and 2018 brings us more than ever.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 17, 2016
These Ruddy Ground Doves were found in the saltwater lagoon near San Jose Del Cabo. Of course, I will need to mention our local import, now spreading its way across North America, much like the English House Sparrow and the European Starling have , t he Eurasian Collared-dove , Streptopelia decaocto decaocto.
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