SueO
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Don't know if I'll be up to birding every day till we leave on the 30th, but I'll try to post on the days I do go out. Today was absolutely stellar! I put my hiking boots and jeans on and went for a proper walk in the hills behind the hotel. We are on a small, high peninsula, with a lagoon on one side, and the Pacific Ocean on the other. There is a climb up from our lagoon side hotel, and then a steep hill down to the ocean. I was out for about four hours. I didn't go all the way down as I was low on water and there was so much activity that getting halfway took some time. The air was so fresh, I felt a little high. It was so great to be out. We need to try and come down more often. I saw many of the birds I posted yesterday, so I won't repost those, but I am adding some really good birds today. I was thrilled to see a Pale-billed Woodpecker again. I heard the raucous call first, and spotted his bright red head. I just got the bins on him and he took off. I was thinking I didn't know if the Pale-billed was the only big woodpecker we had in the area. I was pretty sure I didn't have any others on the Barra list, so I wasn't sure what it was. Lineated? Pale-billed? I didn't see the bill. I saw that he had gone around the corner I was about to turn on, so I hoped I could find him again. Sure enough, I turned the corner, and there he was, big as a Gobblersnapper! I got the bins on him--Pale-billed. Just then a huge, loud truck came by, and the bird flew off again. Damn, I wanted some photos. He flew across the road, so I looked in that direction and found him again. Such a beautiful thing!
4/22/22 List:
Black-vented Oriole
Bronzed Cowbird
Yellow-winged Cacique
Red-breasted Chat
San Blas Jay
Rufous-backed Thrush
Northern Beardless Tyrannulet
Pale-billed Woody
Happy Wren
Stripe-headed Sparrow
Warbling vireo
4/22/22 List:
Black-vented Oriole
Bronzed Cowbird
Yellow-winged Cacique
Red-breasted Chat
San Blas Jay
Rufous-backed Thrush
Northern Beardless Tyrannulet
Pale-billed Woody
Happy Wren
Stripe-headed Sparrow
Warbling vireo