Aplomado Falcon in San Isidro.

The Aplomado Falcon (Falco femoralis) is a South and Central American species that is rarely reported in CR. According eBird data the last reports on Coris de Cartago from July to August 2017 and Cocorocas (Puntarenas) 2017, among other older reports.

Nearly 8-10 days ago, an individual was reported on the San Isidro Central Park, in the San Jose province, this has caused many birders from many regions of the country to come chase what appareantly some call “The General” (after the General Valley, on which San Isidro lays in).

Oscar Herrera, along with my wife Karina and I decided to join the crowd and off we went to chase this cool falcon. 

We were lucky that the bird was on the same antena on which it has been seen by many birders, just above the BCR (Bank of Costa Rica) in downtown San Isidro, we arrived at 7:20am and there it was! We were very happy to get these perfect views, since our previous experience with it in Cartago on August 2017 was a bit distant. https://manuelantoniobirding.wordpress.com/2017/09/05/birding-trip-to-cartago-part-1-aplomado-falcon-and-tapanti-np/

It is fun to catch up with birding buddies but above all, it is great to see how so many people can be linked by one subject in common, one of the many beauties of bird-watching.