Worm-eating Warbler starts our Costa Rican day..

After early morning rain, this 1st year Worm-eating Warbler was a great find in a net adjacent to the garden at Cano Palma ....

To end the morning, this 1st year female Bay-breasted Warbler was found neaby in the forest .With only a handful of records each year here this was a great find.

Today was another of migrant thrushes, with around 30 caught including our 2nd Wood Thrush of the autumn. Yesterday at Aero, our coastal scrub migrant site, this 1st year Common Yellowthroat our best find.

We now have ringed over 700 migrant birds during this visit to Costa Rica, and we are still finding resident species new to us. Below, a Tawny-crested Tanager caught at Cano Palma today. Little information exists on the juvenile plumage of this species, and one we have never seen or captured. The project records very few, and  maybe non for a few years.... 

Not only do the birds amaze us, this Giant Red-winged Grasshopper was along side the path back to our Sea Turtle Conservancy base. At 16cm long, a giant that thankfully keeps clear of our mist nets...

Just after dark, a security guard located a calling Great Potoo with torchlight, a great end to the day...