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  1. Peter C.

    Costa Rica - Volcan Poas & Guanacaste

    Well, James, if you liked that, stay tuned for my next, the epic "Australia, on just 333 1/3 km. a day" report ;). Don't hold your breath, though. I just looked back over this thread, and I see that it took me almost four weeks to write - about just a single week (ye gods). The Australia trip...
  2. Peter C.

    Costa Rica - Volcan Poas & Guanacaste

    Hello Mike, Thanks for that. Hong Kong is a destination of great interest to me; as far as my experience goes, Asian birds are terra incognita. And, even way over here in parochial ol' Canada, we've heard of the Mai Po marshes ... *sigh* ... a goal for another (and, I'm afraid, far-off) year...
  3. Peter C.

    Costa Rica - Volcan Poas & Guanacaste

    Thursday, February 18: Cabañas Cañas Castilla to Daniel Obuder International Airport Departure day – final morning in Costa Rica. However, not wanting to let any time go to waste, we managed to squeeze in one final walk – and one last lifer. Our flight was scheduled to depart at 1145 this...
  4. Peter C.

    Costa Rica - Volcan Poas & Guanacaste

    Thanks, Stephen!
  5. Peter C.

    Costa Rica - Volcan Poas & Guanacaste

    Hey, what's with the "if" ? :hi: Good to hear from you....
  6. Peter C.

    Costa Rica - Volcan Poas & Guanacaste

    Wednesday, February 17: La Rincon de la Vieja (continued) We arrived at the park entrance, Las Pailas sector, at 0700. (Las Pailas = “the cauldrons”. The name refers to the boiling pools in the area, where “La Vieja” lets off some steam). Our timing was perfect – we were the only people in the...
  7. Peter C.

    Costa Rica - Volcan Poas & Guanacaste

    Wednesday, February 17: La Rincon de la Vieja Our penultimate day in Costa Rica, and therefore our last chance for a major outing. We opted for “Rincon”, a National Park that straddles the Cordillera de Guanacaste; partly because the habitat there was notably different than what we’d seen so...
  8. Peter C.

    Costa Rica - Volcan Poas & Guanacaste

    Tuesday, February 16 – Cabañas Cañas Castilla Back at la Cabaña Perezoso, we lazed about in the afternoon for a bit before hitting the trails again, briefly. It wasn't really a birding walk either, I just wanted to climb the highest hill on the finca to take in the view. From there (so we had...
  9. Peter C.

    Costa Rica - Volcan Poas & Guanacaste

    Tuesday, February 16 - Santa Rosa N.P. & Punta Morros One of the reference books we had brought with us to Costa Rica was Wheatley & Brewer’s Where to Watch Birds in Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean. This book includes a short description of Santa Rosa National Park by Mr. David...
  10. Peter C.

    Costa Rica - Volcan Poas & Guanacaste

    Tuesday, February 16 - Cabañas Cañas Castilla to Santa Rosa N.P. The greater part of today, we devoted to a visit to Santa Rosa National Park. This is a place that I had been reading about, and wanting to visit, for years – it has a reputations the top spot for dry tropical forest birds in...
  11. Peter C.

    Costa Rica - Volcan Poas & Guanacaste

    Monday, February 18 – Interlude This story really belongs up there before post #35. I am placing it here, slightly out of chronological order, because, well, I kind of forgot about this when I first started to write everything down (the antshike & owl sightings drove it from my memory!). And I...
  12. Peter C.

    Costa Rica - Volcan Poas & Guanacaste

    MotMot: Thanks for posting these images - I really see what you mean, in that "unimpressive view"; this is what it looks like in the field guides, more or less, and if that's what you get in the field, you've not really seen it. "WOW" is just the word, here ... we were very lucky, I know.
  13. Peter C.

    Costa Rica - Volcan Poas & Guanacaste

    Monday, February 15 (continued) After breakfast, I headed straight for the hammock back at our cabaña – after such an exciting morning, I felt I deserved a nap. My “birding buddy” had other ideas, however; pointing out the heat was going to make life difficult for us later on (at 0900, it was...
  14. Peter C.

    Costa Rica - Volcan Poas & Guanacaste

    Monday, February 15 - Cabañas Cañas Castilla After the hectic pace of the last three days, DMM suggested that we have a real day off for a change – no excursions anywhere! And, even though there were a whole bunch of interesting locations to visit nearby, I had to agree with her; I was...
  15. Peter C.

    Costa Rica - Volcan Poas & Guanacaste

    All right, good luck with it! When is the trip? You're very kind, and most welcome ... and also (as I see that "1" there below your ID) welcome to BirdForum. Peter C. (And I am still fussing over photos ... I am soooo slow at it ... but DMM was good enough to do a few for me last night, as I...
  16. Peter C.

    Costa Rica - Volcan Poas & Guanacaste

    Cabañas Cañas Castilla - a brief Introduction When I was first contemplating this trip, I took full advantage of my Birdforum membership, posting a question an open question in the "Costa Rica" forum – were I to be in Guanacaste for a few days, what would be the best place to stay? I received...
  17. Peter C.

    Costa Rica - Volcan Poas & Guanacaste

    Never mind that .. even four or five trips...! Steve and Patrick, you are, I believe, the third and fourth individuals who have recommended Heliconias Lodge to me. It sounds wonderful, and I suspect it deserves a good long stay - no way I would be able to have even touched it on this trip...
  18. Peter C.

    Costa Rica - Volcan Poas & Guanacaste

    Hi RobertaG. You raise a good point; there are certain to be people who will come across this thread, who are not members of BF, and I had not thought of this (I was one, not so long ago!). Anyway, thanks for the comments, on with the show.
  19. Peter C.

    Costa Rica - Volcan Poas & Guanacaste

    All seen it now? Good. What you just looked at was a photograph – a rather poor one – of a Black Guan. The Black Guan is large bird belonging to the cracid family, an exclusively new world group of (mostly) tropical distribution. The foggy picture does not really give you a good view of the...
  20. Peter C.

    Costa Rica - Volcan Poas & Guanacaste

    Poas Volcano Lodge - an Afterword (You may safely consider all of the next two post to be an [Aside]. Judging from the replies I have seen so far, it looks like I am mostly "preaching to the choir" here. But in case I still have any readers who are among the "unconverted," what follows may be a...
  21. Peter C.

    Costa Rica - Volcan Poas & Guanacaste

    Day 4, Sunday, February 14. Poas Volcano Lodge → Cabañas Cañas Castilla Another day with, alas, a good amount of time spent (lost) in transit. We got one more crack at the highland birds at Poas Volcano Lodge, then it was off to the far north-west of Guanacaste, where we will spend the...
  22. Peter C.

    Costa Rica - Volcan Poas & Guanacaste

    Oh, yes... those would all have been nice... esp. at close range!
  23. Peter C.

    Costa Rica - Volcan Poas & Guanacaste

    Halftwo - And I, in turn, am considerably gripped by the Bellbird - maybe it was the wrong season for them? I never even heard one! And, from what people have told me, it's one of those calls that, even if you don't know what it is, you know it's something extraordinary... No, no feeders...
  24. Peter C.

    Costa Rica - Volcan Poas & Guanacaste

    Day 3: Saturday, February 13 (Poas Volcano Lodge-Cuidad Colon-Poas Volcano Lodge) (Today was mostly a “travel day”, without much time for birding. We had arranged to meet our friend in Cuidad Colon, down in the Valle Central. I didn’t know how long this trip might take; but, given the...
  25. Peter C.

    Costa Rica - Volcan Poas & Guanacaste

    Day 2: Friday, February 12 (Final Part) - La Fortuna/Poas Volcano Lodge The drive to Poas Volcano Lodge took us through a very high, cloudy pass, and a whole string of small – and some not-so-small – towns: Cuidad Quesada, Zacero, Sarchi, Grecia, and others. Much of out time seemed to be spent...
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