Paul's 2023 Photographic World List (1 Viewer)

[Paul Chapman]

Another successful day. Day twelve ended with a trip list of 446 of which I have photographed slightly over 400. As the rain beats down outside, it suggests that day thirteen may be unlucky. We will see what can be salvaged. The forecast suggests that the rain is here all day.

Various attached:-
Vermiculated Screech Owl
Central American Pygmy Owl
King Vulture
Green Ibis
Russet-naped Wood-rail
Pied Puffbird
Yellow Tyrannulet
American Pygmy Kingfisher
Olivaceous Piculet
Great Green Macaw
Red-lored Parrot
Crested Owl
Great Tinamou
Black-cheeked Woodpecker
Blue Dacnis
Solitary Sandpiper
Black-striped Woodpecker
Thick-billed Seed-finch
Olive-backed Euphonia
White-lored Parrot

All the best

Paul

 

[Scridifer]

Sorry to hear about the rain Paul, fingers crossed it picks up for you!

Chris

 

[Paul Chapman]

Sorry to hear about the rain Paul, fingers crossed it picks up for you!

Chris

Cheers. From previous trips we expected to lose a day & a half at some point....

It will be interesting today.

All the best

Paul

 

[Paul Chapman]

A bit of rain so far & now turned out nice again.... Maybe more rain later.

 

[Paul Chapman]

When I get back, I intend to work my way through the bird photos to upload to eBird checklist by checklist & then update the species list starting from 175 as at 12th February day by day.

For now, just trying to keep on top of eBird checklists generally and a rough estimate of species photographed. eBird total including heards is 473 and a total of 430 species photographed approximately as at last night. A handful added this morning. We leave La Selva today for Arenal. Two days there and back to San Jose.

A few pics
Chestnut-colored Woodpecker
Long-tailed Tyrant
Black-faced Grosbeak
Snowy Cotinga (female)
Cinnamon Woodpecker
Rufous-winged Woodpecker
White-necked Puffbird
King Vulture
Broad-billed Motmot
Spotted Antbird
Stripe-throated Wren
Band-tailed Barbthroat
Short-tailed Nightjar
Grey-rumped Swift
Chestnut-sided Warbler
White-collared Manakin
Red-throated Ant-tanager
Fasciated Antshrike
Rufous Mourner
Rufous Motmot

It will be interesting to go through the "learning experiences" (mistakes!) from the photos - especially as operating on my phone and back of camera!

All the best

Paul

 

[Paul Chapman]

I think today ended with 489 on the trip list for me & 444 of those photographed. Certainly, the possibilities tomorrow to increase that! Subject to the weather....

A few pics.
Sungrebe
White-vented Euphonia
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Olive-streaked Flycatcher
Buff-throated Foliage-gleaner
Torrent Tyrannulet
Black Phoebe
White-bellied Mountain-gem
Black-and-white Owl
Keel-billed Motmot
Grey-headed Dove
Hooded Warbler
Green Honeycreeper
White-throated Crake
Great Curasow
Red-legged Honeycreeper


All the best

Paul

 

[Paul Chapman]

Tour finishes tomorrow afternoon back in San Jose so maybe an addition or two but not many. Arenal Bird Observatory has not disappointed over the last day. Trip list is now estimated as 510 with 463 photographed. A few pics from today:-

Emerald Tanager
Violet-headed Hummingbird
Northern Parula
Red-lored Parrot
Semiplumbeous Kite
Tawny-capped Euphonia
Bicolored Antbird
Hepatic Tanager
Black-created Coquette
Bronze-tailed Plumeteer
Streak-headed Antvireo
Ocellated Antbird
Spotted Antbird
Northern Barred Woodcreeper
Striped Woodhaunter
White-throated Shrike-tanager
Slaty-capped Flycatcher
Carmiol's Tanager
Ornate Hawk-eagle
Rufous-tailed Hummingbird

All the best

Paul

 

[Paul Chapman]

A final few bits when mainly travelling today. Fly back tomorrow and start reconciling after the weekend....

Black Phoebe
Louisiana Waterthrush
Chestnut-capped Warbler
Three-wattled Bellbird (in cloud & drizzle!)
Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher (in cloud & drizzle!)
Collared Redstart
White-necked Jacobin
Thicket Antpitta
Black-striped Sparrow

All the best

Paul

 

[Scridifer]

Safe journey home Paul! I look forward to hearing more about your trip.

Chris

 

[Paul Chapman]

Pics downloaded and editing will begin tomorrow or Monday... It will be interesting to see how many identifications fall by the way side and how many "record" shots do not make it into eBird. Currently, my yearlist sits at 689 on eBird including all unphotographed birds and "heards" and anticipating the photo yearlist will climb to 600+ as a result when the exercise is complete. The analysis of the gap will be interesting.

Maybe the chance to add a bird or two during the week before the Costa Rica exercise is complete as well though diary quite busy for a couple of weeks.

All the best

Paul

 

[Paul Chapman]

Up for a rather entertaining afternoon at The Emirates so after an overnight locally, I took in the Stanborough Park Little Bunting in Hertfordshire. Numbers in due course after the Costa Rican catch up!

All the best

Paul

 

[Scridifer]

Up for a rather entertaining afternoon at The Emirates so after an overnight locally, I took in the Stanborough Park Little Bunting in Hertfordshire. Numbers in due course after the Costa Rican catch up!

All the best

Paul

Is the Little Bunting a long stayer Paul? I'm flying into Luton at the end of the month and it's a bird |I've not seen.

Chris

 

[BenjiS]

Is the Little Bunting a long stayer Paul? I'm flying into Luton at the end of the month and it's a bird |I've not seen.

Chris

If you look on hnhs.org it has reports of the birds seen in Hertfordshire.
It has also been recorded a few times in the last few days on Ebird, it was ringed on 21st of Feb so has been there a little while

 

[Paul Chapman]

Is the Little Bunting a long stayer Paul? I'm flying into Luton at the end of the month and it's a bird |I've not seen.

Chris

Good luck if you try Chris. I parked here:-

51°46'59.6"N 0°13'16.1"W · Welwyn Garden City AL8 6YU

Welwyn Garden City AL8 6YU

maps.app.goo.gl

And walked south along the car boot field to an area of bushes around a green feeder here:-

51°46'43.5"N 0°13'04.1"W · Welwyn Garden City

Welwyn Garden City

maps.app.goo.gl

It took a bit of patience.

All the best

Paul

 

[Scridifer]

Many thanks for the gen Paul, much appreciated.

Chris

 

[Paul Chapman]

Having finished organising my Costa Rican photos into sets by each eBird checklist, I treated myself to a trip up the road to Slimbridge where the White-rumped Sandpiper came a bit closer at nearly 5pm - just before kicking out time. I had it all to myself for the last hour on South Lake. For nearly all of the three hours that I was there, it was mobile and distant. I will add the yearlist number in due course!

Now to checklist number one on 15th February...

All the best

Paul

 

[Paul Chapman]

So sixteen days of Costa Rican photos to edit. With a push, I may get to the end of day one tomorrow & get the numbers moving....

In the meantime, in a year with a significant dearth of white rumps amongst our local finch flocks, I caught up with Brambling for the photo yearlist this afternoon.

All the best

Paul

 

[Paul Chapman]

A bit of a challenging exercise but now completed 15th February on eBird and brought the photo list to close of play on that day:-

176 - Grey-headed Chachalaca
177 - Black Guan
178 - Red-billed Pigeon
179 - White-winged Dove
180 - Green Hermit*
181 - Green Thorntail* (male & female)
182 - Green-browned Brilliant*
183 - Purple-throated Mountain-gem*
184 - Violet Sabrewing*
185 - Coppery-headed Emerald
186 - Black-bellied Hummingbird*
187 - Rufous-tailed Hummingbird
188 - American Black Vulture
189 - Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl*
190 - Mottled Owl*
191 - Lesson's Motmot
192 - Prong-billed Barbet*
193 - Northern Emerald-Toucanet*
194 - Hoffman's Woodpecker*
195 - Red-faced Spinetail
196 - Masked Tityra
197 - Great Kiskadee
198 - Boat-billed Flycatcher
199 - Tropical Kingbird
200 - Brown Jay
201 - Rufous-naped Wren*
202 - Clay-coloured Thrush
203 - Common Chlorospingus
204 - Rufous-collared Sparrow*
205 - Yellow-billed Cacique
206 - Montezuma's Oropendola*
207 - Baltimore Oriole*
208 - Tennessee Warbler
209 - Blackburnian Warbler
210 - Chestnut-capped Warbler
211 - Costa Rican Warbler
212 - Summer Tanager*
213 - Crimson-collared Tanager*
214 - Scarlet-rumped Tanager
215 - Blue-grey Tanager
216 - Palm Tanager
217 - Bay-headed Tanager
218 - Silver-throated Tanager*
219 - Bananaquit*
220 - Buff-throated Saltator

Sites visited that day were Hotel Bougainvillea, La Paz Waterfall Gardens & La Cinchona & checklists here:-

https://ebird.org/checklist/S128362948

https://ebird.org/checklist/S128418335

https://ebird.org/checklist/S128362987

https://ebird.org/checklist/S128363011

https://ebird.org/checklist/S128418417

https://ebird.org/checklist/S128416994

I will be trying to get 16th February finished tomorrow....

All the best

Paul

 

[KC Foggin]

That's one helluva collection and your images are down right brilliant Paul!!

 

[Paul Chapman]

And now eBird up to date as at 16th February with photo yearlist as at end of that day:-

221 - Ruddy Pigeon
222 - Ruddy Ground Dove
223 - Buff-fronted Quail Dove*
224 - Dusky Nightjar*
225 - Vaux's Swift
226 - Talamanca Hummingbird*
227 - Scintillant Hummingbird
228 - American Moorhen
229 - Southern Lapwing
230 - Northern Jacana
231 - Little Blue Heron
232 - Turkey Vulture
233 - Bicoloured Hawk*
234 - Grey Hawk
235 - Broad-winged Hawk
236 - Red-tailed Hawk*
237 - Costa Rican Pygmy Owl*
238 - Resplendent Quetzal*
239 - Lineated Woodpecker*
240 - Crested Caracara
241 - Yellow-headed Caracara
242 - Crimson-fronted Parakeet*
243 - Barred Antshrike*
244 - Spot-crowned Woodcreeper
245 - Buffy Tuftedcheek
246 - Streak-breasted Treehunter
247 - Black Phoebe
248 - Social Flycatcher
249 - Yellow-winged Vireo
250 - Blue-and-white Swallow
251 - Northern Rough-winged Swallow*
252 - Cabanis's Wren
253 - Mountain Thrush*
254 - Long-tailed Silky-flycatcher*
255 - Chestnut-capped Brushfinch*
256 - Cabanis's Ground Sparrow
257 - White-naped Brushfinch*
258 - Yellow-thighed Brushfinch*
259 - Flame-throated Warbler*
260 - Mourning Warbler*
261 - Collared Redstart
262 - White-lined Tanager
263 - Spangle-cheeked Tanager
264 - Black-headed Saltator
265 - Cinnamon-bellied Saltator*

*pics

Sites visited were Hotel Bougainvillea, Ujarras, Parque de Paraiso, Fincas Las Concavas, Casa Tangara, Providencia Road & Paraiso Quetzal Lodge:-

https://ebird.org/checklist/S128482336

https://ebird.org/checklist/S128482966

https://ebird.org/checklist/S128483173

https://ebird.org/checklist/S128616105

https://ebird.org/checklist/S128616839

https://ebird.org/checklist/S128617236

https://ebird.org/checklist/S128618938

https://ebird.org/checklist/S128619455

https://ebird.org/checklist/S128619547

On to 17th February when time allows. Keen to get Costa Rica complete to plough onwards...

All the best

Paul