Our day for a dolphin tour with Golfo Dulce Exploradores All packed and ready to head back to San Jose, we left our bags…
Penultimate day in Costa Rica
Birds, bugs and frog’s eggs Another early start to the day on the property yielded a Yellow Warbler (maybe even one from the Pioneer…
Only 2.5 days left on the Osa Peninsula
We decided to spend most of the day on the property of the Private Villas. My early morning (5:30) visit to the Ranch House…
Evening Squirrel Monkeys
Every evening at dusk the troop of monkeys came right past our “home away from home!” This was my first encounter with the little…
Day 2 on the Osa Peninsula
Getting up early to see the birds! We had a local Lineated Woodpecker in our backyard most mornings. The tree there seemed to be…
Osa Peninsula
Coming to the Osa Peninsula felt like coming home after the wonderful week I spent there last year with my sister and brother-in-law. It…
Heading to the Osa Peninsula
Cows and Egrets and a 1st visit to a Kiskadee nest In 2021, a single cattle egret showed up in Hatfield, MA and I,…
Manuel Antonio Park
Many Sloths and Monkeys, Lizards and Crabs, beautiful plants and insects. Only 2,000 people a day are allowed in the park and the only…
Day one visiting Manuel Antonio
Traveling a bit away from the park to find birds. After being way out in the country for a week, arriving in Manuel Antonio,…
Leaving Monteverde for Manuel Antonio
A stop along the way for coffee and a toe in the sand. The first big bird to appear was, of course, a vulture.…