Streak-headed woodcreeper

Back home again at the Turrialba Volcano!  After some sterling birdwatching in California, I am finally back here in San Antonio, at 1200 m.  Here’s a garden list of what is to be found this year in January, beginning of February, without even going out into the field:

1. Gray-headed chachalaca
2. Cattle egret
3. Black vulture
4. Turkey vulture
5. Roadside hawk
6. Red-billed pigeon
7. Ruddy ground-dove
8. White-tipped dove
9. White-crowned parrot
10. Squirrel cuckoo
11. Groove-billed ani
12. Bare-shanked screech-owl
13. Tropical screech-owl
14. Common pauraque
15. Rufous-tailed hummingbird
16. Keel-billed toucan
17. Golden-olive woodpecker
18. Rufous-winged woodpecker
19. Streak-headed woodcreeper
20. Yellow-bellied elaenia
21. Piratic flycatcher
22. Common tody-flycatcher
23. Black phoebe
24. Great kiskadee
25. Social flycatcher
26. Brown jay
27. Blue-and-white swallow
28. Northern rough-winged swallow
29. Plain wren
30. House wren
31. Clay-colored robin
32. Tennessee warbler
33. Black-and-white warbler
34. Wilson’s warbler
35. Bananaquit
36. Summer tanager
37. Passerini’s tanager
38. Golden-hooded tanager
39. Blue-gray tanager
40. Palm tanager
41. Yellow-faced grassquit
42. Black-striped sparrow
43. Rufous-collared sparrow
44. Grayish saltator
45. Buff-throated saltator
46. Black-headed saltator
47. Melodious blackbird
48. Great-tailed grackle
49. Baltimore oriole
50. Montezuma oropendola
51. Elegant euphonia

All in all, fifty nifty but quite common species, plus one.  Strikingly absent at the moment are the Crimson-fronted parakeet and the Gray-capped flycatcher.  All of the above were spotted just by looking out of the window or cleaning up in the garden.  There’ll be much more to come since migrants are all still here.  My closing photo shows a male Summer tanager, almost always present here at this time of year.  Both photos courtesy of Karel Straatman.  See you in Provence, Karel!

Summer tanager wintering in Costa Rica