AHHHHHHH!!!!!

Well, I guess the tide has "terned". Wow! Not only did you fly by me, you got some pretty amazing birds! Scarlet Macaw? I guess I expected that you would get mostly the same birds I did. Belize birds are getting to be so predictable to me, that I thought it would be that way all over central America. Wow. There were many I had never seen before. Hmmmm. And the ones I have seen, many of them were incredible favorites like the Keel Billed toucan and the Amazon Oropandola (sp?).

Well, I guess I might as well add my two newest ones.

168. Blue Grossbeak
169. Bald Eagle! (from point park)

Costa Rica Damage

In all I saw 117 bird varieties in 6 days of birding in Costa Rica. Fortunately only 88 of them are new to my list this year. So here it goes.
115. Yellow-thighed Finch
116. Blue & White Swallow
117. Spangled-Cheeked Tanager
118. Violet Sabrewing
119. Brown Jay
120. Rufous-Collared Sparrow
121. Mountain Robin
122. Green Crowned Brilliant
123. Black Faced Solitaire
124. Green-fronted Lancebill
125. Purple Throated Mountain Gem
126. Slate-troated Redstart
127. Clay Colored Robin
128. Pale-Vented Thrush
129. Golden Browed Chlorophonia
130. Blue Gray Tanager
131. Great Kiskadee
132. White-Winged Dove
133. Blue-Ground Dove
134. Inca Dove
135. Mangrove Swallow
136. Southern Rough Winged Swallow
137. Little Blue Heron
138. Tri-Colored Heron
139. Mangrove Black Hawk
140. Scarlet Macaw
141. Hoffman's Woodpecker
142. Magnificent Frigatebird
143. Gray Breasted Martin
144. Gray-headed Kite
145. Black-Headed Trogan
146. Northern Jacana
147. Ringed Kingfisher
148. White Winged Becard
149. Red Billed Pigeon
150. Green Thorntail
151. Blue Crowned Motmot
152. Groove-Billed Ani
153. Wood Stork
154. House Wren
155. Common-Bush Tanager
156. Swallow-tailed Kite
157. Garden Emerald
158. Fiery Throated Hummingbird
160. Rufous Napped Wren
161. Sooty Robin
162. Royal Turn
163. Panama Flycatcher
164. Turquise browed Marmot
165. White Ibis
166. Black-hooted Antshrike
167. Boat Billed Heron
168. Common Tody Flycatcher
169. Bare-throated Tiger Heron
170. Green Kingfisher
171. Violaceous Trogan
172. Red Legged Honey Creeper
173. Northern Barred Woodcreeper
174. Short Billed Pigeon
175. Dotted-winged Antwren
176. White-Breasted Woodwren
177. Paltry Tyrannulett
178. Common Ground Dove
179. White Ringged Flycatcher
180. Montezuma Oropendula
181. Crimson-fronted Parakeet
182. Bronze-tailed Plumeteer
183. Golden-olive Woodpecker
184. Barred Parakeet
185. Slaty Antwren
186. Dusky-Capped Flycatcher
187. Variable Seedeater
188. Melodious Blackbird
189. Rufous Tailed Hummingbird
190. Keel-billed Toucan
191. Scarlet-rumped Cacique
192. White Collared Swift
193. Resplendent Quetzal
194. Collared Redstart
195. Gray Crowned Yellowthroat
196. Scarlet-thighed Dacnis
197. Costa Rican Swift
198. Ruddy Ground Dove
199. Green Hermit
200. Magnificent Hummingbird
201. Golden-bellied Flycatcher
202. Bank Swallow

Note: I have 8 more potential birds to add to the list but I have to look up more information such as matching their sound with the bird I saw. For example, there were two virtually identical looking doves near the base house we rented that look alike but have a slightly different sound.

Hummer

167. Ruby-throated Hummingbird--our backyard

Correction

After discussion with a fellow pastor and birder whom I met while in TX (Rick McEdward) we feel that the female lapland larkspur seen at Dinosaur State Park in TX was not a Lapland but rather an American Tree Sparrow. boo hoo!

Anyway I just saw a replacement bird.

so I'm still at 114

113 replacement = Yellow Warbler (back yard)

Cool birds Darron! At least one of those would have been a lifer for me.

Here are a few I got today around town:

164. Swainson's Thrush Craven's house
165. White-eyed Vireo Pott's point
166. Chimney Swift--Coolidge Park

Orchard Oriole

I arrived home after dark last night from TX. . . so this morning (a few minutes ago) I went outside to exercise and quickly came right back in because I needed my scope.

114. Orchard Oriole -- Looks like he may be setting up home in my neighbors backyard.

TX, ARK, LA, MISS, ALA, TN

Here are the rest of the birds from my trip out to TX and back. Sorry the Dates are all mixed up. . . but were seen between 4/28-5/4/09
105. Scissor Tailed Flycatcher -- Somewhere just east of Shreiveport LA
105. Great-Tailed Grackle -- everywhere in TX, 1,000's of them
107. Summer Tanager -- Dinosour Valley State Park TX
108. Great Crested Flycatcher -- McKinney TX
109. Chimney Swift -- McKinney TX
110. Snowy Egret -- Arkansas -- east of Little Rock in the rice growing territory
111. Franklins Gull -- hundreds of migratories north of Dallas/Ft Worth area.
112. Spotted Sandpiper -- Dinosour Valley State Park TX
113. Lapland Larkspur -- Dinosour Valley State Park TX (lots of them migrating)

Well, I have a few confessions myself. I repeated four birds!

So my next bird will be:
156. Yellow-shafted flicker--Standifer Gap Marsh
157. Scarlet Tanager--Standifer gap marsh
158. Red-winged Blackbird--standifer gap marsh
159. Tropical Kingbird--Standifer gap marsh
160. House Finch--by my driveway
161. Goldfinch-- by my driveway
162. Brown-headed Cowbird -- Near my home
163. Summer Tanager-- My front yard!