Category Archives: In My Patch

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

Gray Catbird

Southern migrants arrive

Yellow-olive flycatcher

Male Yellow-bellied sapsucker at Quebrada La Loca

Long-billed gnatwren

Green Heron eyes our koi

New Year 2015 finally finds me reporting to ebird

Attila

Small flycatcher identification problems multiply

Two new species in the drizzle at San Antonio

Bird of the Day – Fasciated Tiger-heron

Chestnut-headed Oropendola

Wood Thrush

Bare-shanked Screech-owl is still here

Purple-crowned Fairy and Scarlet-thighed dacnis at San Diego

Great Blue Heron gobbles up our koi

Olive-striped flycatcher at El Gavilán y Las Truchas

Long-tailed Silky-flycatcher moves downhill

Turrialba Volcano becomes increasingly active

Yellow-breasted chat – a rarity here in Costa Rica

Threatened Golden-winged warbler joins mixed flock

Nocturnal scream – is it the Short-tailed nighthawk?

My San Antonio swallows and swifts

First oriole of the season – are they always Baltimores?