Category Archives: In My Patch

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

Notable November birds – 2018

Costa Rica’s only truly migrant hummingbird

Spotted Barbtail – spotted today!

Wood-Rails – Confusion over the recent split

White-tailed Kite hovers over San Antonio

Good news and bad news: Back in San Antonio de Turrialba

Yellow birds nesting in a Costa Rican garden

Raptors great and small: Ornate Hawk-Eagle and Merlin now in our area

Birds in my Costa Rican mountain-slope garden in January/February

Piratic Flycatcher – first of 3 southern migrants to return

Turrialba Volcano slope – first visit of 2018

Squirrel Cuckoo – common but beautiful

Collared araçari – back in the garden after a 2-year absence

Mountain Elaenia – an infrequent visitor to my garden

Fasciated Tiger-Heron returns to Quebrada La Loca

Today in the garden

Magnolia Warbler and an uncommon Chlorospingus at San Diego

Latest garden visitor – Yellow-billed Cuckoo

First migrant warbler of the season – Black-and-white Warbler

Bicolored Hawk at Quebrada La Loca

A Short Walk to Quebrada La Loca

August in my garden – Part II!

August in my garden on the Turrialba Volcano slope

Fasciated Tiger-heron in the garden