Category Archives: In My Patch

posts about bird sightings in and around my house and garden in San Antonio

In a Costa Rican garden: Groove-billed Ani

In a Costa Rican garden: White-tipped Dove

In a Costa Rican garden: Red-billed Pigeon

In a Costa Rican garden: Gray-headed Chachalaca

In a Costa Rican garden: Yigüirro – the national bird

White-tipped Sicklebill

Migrant Rose-breasted Grosbeaks still flying north

Red-headed Barbet

Southern Lapwing now in San Antonio

Two new species for San Diego: White-ruffed Manakin and White-shouldered Tanager

Blue-vented Hummingbird – 15th hummer for the house

My San Antonio Sparrows

Sunbittern in my garden

Vireos – Yellow-green and Red-eyed

Another unusual sighting: Cinnamon Becard at 1300 m in San Antonio de Santa Cruz

New species in my garden – Barred Antshrike and White-winged Becard

Elaenias around Turrialba

Collared Redstart – el amigo del hombre

Long-tailed Silky-Flycatchers abound at Calle Vargas

Ochraceous Wren & Spangle-cheeked Tanager – two more Costa Rican endemics

First Piratic Flycatcher of the year

Buff-rumped Warbler – long expected at Quebrada La Loca

Visiting Gray Catbird – here 3 of the last 4 years

Band-backed Wrens return to our garden