Birding trip to northern Costa Rica: Medio Queso wetlands, Caño negro and San Carlos area.

PART 2: Looking for yellow winged tanager.

After ending our boat trip in Medio queso we went for lunch and then we wanted to give a try to find a special tanager following the suggestions of a friend, yellow winged tanager (Thraupis abbas), a new report for Costa Rica seen for first time about 3 years ago. So we went to the place, its basically a small restaurant where only tour buses come, located just past the gas station outside los Chiles, on the left hand side in route to Los Chiles.

This is the link to ebird about what we saw in the feeders.

The feeders are not so maintained so if you want to try this bird you have to cooperate with the feeder

Cleaning the feeders and putting some fresh fruit

It did not take a minute even to have the feeder loaded with black striped sparrows, grayish saltators, blue gray tanagers, palm tanager but unfortunately after 1 hr of waiting the yellow winged tanager did not show up.

Grayish saltator

Blue gray tanager

Red legged honeycreeper

Hoffman’s woodpecker

Hoffman’s woodpecker

Can yo tell what species this is?! Male Passerini’s tanager and cherrie’s tanager, nonetheless this one on the pictures is a passerini’s tanager; the caribbean species while cherrie’s is the pacific specie. Females are different.

Always nice to see a clay colored thrush

Black striped sparrow.

Once we left the feeders to head for Caño negro we saw this beautiful white tailed kite.

White tailed kite

white tailed kite