Please join the San Vito Bird Club this Sunday, May 12th, for a Bird Walk down in Tres Rios. Approximately twelve Crested Oropendola nests are to be found in a tall Poro tree. These nests are actively attended by both Ma and Pa Oropendola. What’s going on inside the nests? Eggs…chicks…what? Let’s see if we can find out.

Meet me, Greg Homer, at the Motola Bakery between 6:30 and 7:00 am (enjoy a coffee and a doughnut if you wish). At 7:01 we’ll drive down to the site. Bring a folding chair if you’d like but I’ll have a few extra. This is a wonderful birding site and we will also be walking along the Tres Rios road, watching and listening for other bird species.

Perhaps, following the walk we should return to the Motola Bakery for what is…according to San Vito Bird Club founder Alison Olivieri…the BEST GALLO PINTO in Coto Brus!

Hope to see you there. As always, binoculars available as needed.

Crested Oropendola (minimalist interpretation, artist Greg Homer)

Please join the San Vito Bird Club for a bird walk this Sunday April 28, at the Wilson Botanical Garden. Free-free-free!

Meet at the Recepcion office at 7am. Binoculars available as needed.

Invite your friends/neighbors who may not have previously connected with the San Vito Bird Club.

Coffee and social time follows at the Wilson Comedor.

Hope to see you there.

Please join the San Vito Bird Club for our regular guided Bird Walk, this Sunday…April 14th…at the Wilson Botanical Garden. Meet at Recepcion at 7am. Binoculars and field guides available as needed. Coffee and discussion to follow.

Hope to see you there.

Please join the San Vito Bird Club this Sunday at 7am for a bird walk and an exploration of nature…in a new locale.

The Mycelium Forest Project (Bosque Micelio); on our well-known Magic Road, (see map) is our destination. Easy access from the Magic Road…good parking, gentle trails. Bring your own water, please.

Three ways to get there:

1. Meet me, Greg Homer, at the start of the Magic Road, just past my El Tangaral wooden gate at 6:45am.
2. Drive down the Magic Road yourself from the Linda Vista side. We will meet up at the new Cabanas Bosque del Canto right on the Magic Road (see photo).
3. Drive up the Magic Road from the Tres Rios side; again we’ll meet up at the Cabanas Bosque del Canto at 7am.

Should be a good walk and maybe…maybe…we’ll even find some Easter eggs.

Please join the San Vito Bird Club this coming Sunday for a Welcome October Bird Walk.

WHERE?–Wilson Botanical Garden (OTS Las Cruces). Meet at the Recepcion Office.

WHEN?–Sunday, Oct. 1st at 7:00am. You can show up later. Just look around for us; or even better just listen for us.

Binoculars and field guides available as needed. Coffee and discussion to follow.

Chestnut-sided Warbler; northern migrant. Photo courtesy of (most likely) Jo Davidson.

Please join the San Vito Bird Club on Sunday, Sept. 17th for our bi-monthly bird walk.

This week we invite you to more of a Bird Sit in the upper gardens of El Tangaral*. About four folding chairs are waiting for you; but if you have a favorite folding chair, bring it along. Also, bring your own coffee/beverage and a snack, if you wish.

Join us anytime between 7:00am and 10:00am on Sunday.

*El Tangaral is located on the highway, between Casa Botania and the Wilson Garden. Pull into the large brown gate with the ‘EL TANGARAL’ sign. The upper garden is to the right of the A-frame house (Lydia’s house). Park where you’re comfortable.

Los Migrantes of the bird world are again showing up. Binoculars and guides (both bird and butterfly) are available.

Photo courtesy of Helen LeVasseur.

Please join the San Vito Bird Club for our regular Sunday bird walk at Wilson Garden (OTS Las Cruces). Meet up at the Recepcion Office at 7:30am. Binoculars available if needed.

Little by little, changes are coming to the Wilson pollinator garden and this time of year is ‘butterfly season’ so expect some good ones.

An on-going exhibit of the artwork of Deidre Hyde can still be viewed at Recepcion.

Following the walk, join us for coffee at the Comedor.

Migrant birds may be showing up! But I’ve been saying that for two weeks now. But they might.

Photo courtesy of OTS website.

Please join the San Vito Bird Club for our every-other-Sunday bird walk.

When: Meet at 7am this coming Sunday, March 12.

Where: Down on the Tres Rios road. We’ll meet up near the little bridge that is near that little waterfall. Contact me (see below) if you need directions.

As always, binoculars and expert guides are available.

Greg Homer…8543-6665.

eltangaral@gmail.com

Crimson-fronted Parakeet in Porro tree. Photo courtesy of Gail Hull.

Please join the San Vito Bird Club for our regular every-other-week bird walk.

We’ll walk through the Wilson Botanical Gardens (OTS Las Cruces). Meet at Recepcion at 7:00am. Binoculars available as needed.

A top-notch birder who lives in San Vito tells me Cedar Waxwings are moving through the country right now. Wouldn’t that be sight to see…a flock of Cedar Waxwings!

Also, congratulations to our colleagues, los Pajareros del Sur, for spotting the very first Dark-billed Cuckoo ever seen in Costa Rica; down in the rice fields south of Ciudad Neily.

Hope you can join us.

Photo of Dark-billed Cuckoo, courtesy of Helen LeVasseur.