Category Archives: In My Patch

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

Sunbittern and Tiger-heron reappear at Quebrada La Loca

Unsure of light-green birds at San Rafael

Green Violetear on a routine trip to San Diego

Prong-billed Barbet and Rufous-browed Peppershrike at Las Virtudes

Rain, rain, rain: all local rivers in flood

Brown-hooded Parrot

New Hummingbird Species for My Patch – San Rafael

Yellowish Flycatcher – a resident Empidonax

Help ID this hummingbird / Ayúdenos en identificar este colibrí

Costa Rica’s smallest hummingbird

Bicolored Hawk – bird of the week

Our area Becards and two life birds after heavy rain

Migrating Cliff Swallows and a Woodcreeper Nest

White-lined Tanagers now nesting in the garden

Daylight view of Bare-shanked screech-owl

Which Trogons are in the Turrialba area?

Male Cape May Warbler – rufous cheeks and all

At the San Diego Waterfall

Morning has broken

Pygmy-owl, but which one?

Chestnut-capped Brush-finch

Crested Guan at nearby San Rafael

Striped Cuckoo at San Diego

Cape May Warbler – non-breeding male