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.

Please join us this Sunday at Helen and Greg Homer’s Magic Road, starting at 7:30 am.

This location is usually very rewarding with a wide variety of birds and butterflies.

The walk is free, bi-lingual and open to the public. We will have binoculars to lend and bird books to share — come and join the fun!

Directions: take the road from San Vito south, passing Escuela Linda Vista on the left. Pass the former B&B Casa Botania on the right and look for a light blue house with a red door, decked out for Christmas, also on the right — you will see our cars parked ahead at the beginning of the Magic Road.

Please join the San Vito Bird Club for a bird and butterfly walk on Sunday, Sept. 25th at 8:00am.

Meet at Finca Cantaros gate.

Binoculars available as needed. We do have a few Butterfly field guides as well; but we hope to have an actual ‘butterfly person’ or two with us.

Hope you can join us.

Please join the San Vito Bird Club for a low impact (but high diversity) Big Sit birding event on Sunday, Aug. 21st, starting at 7:00am and ending when we reach 50 or so bird species.

This Big Sit is easy to get to:

1. Park on the Magic Road, near the highway.
2. The Nacientes Encantada trail, a Cantaros property, is about 50 meters down the Magic Road on the left side.
3. Walk down the Nacientes Encantada trail about 25 meters to a nice open flat spot on the right.
4. Sit down in your comfortable folding chair. I will have extra chairs if you don’t have one. Also, binoculars available.
5. Enjoy the nature and the good fellowship.

This is a BYO-coffee event.

Please join the San Vito Bird Club for our bird walk on SUNDAY, JULY 31.

Meet at the gate of the beautiful FINCA CANTAROS at 7:30am. We will explore the trails, view the lake and who knows…find a northern migrant bird? It is very early for migrants to appear down here in the southern zone but there are always a few bold and intrepid birds who leave the north early as they just can’t wait to get back; and who could blame them.

Binoculars available as needed. Hope to see you there.

Please join the San Vito Bird Club for a Bird Walk.

When: Sunday, April 3 at 7:00am-9am.

Where: Meet outside the Wilson Garden Recepcion office. Binoculars available as needed.

We normally have a couple of breakfast options for sale after the walk; not sure that’s going to happen this week. It could happen…stay tuned. If not, coffee and tea will be available following the walk.

April is prime migratory bird season down here. Swainson’s Thrushes, Piratic Flycatchers, Scarlet Tanagers, a variety of warblers and vireos could be out.

There is no charge for this bird walk if you are a San Vito Bird Club member. If you’re not, Sunday might be a good time to join.

Hope to see you there.

Please join the San Vito Bird Club on our next birding walk.

When: Sunday, March 13th at 7am-9am.

Where: Meet at the front gate of Finca Cantaros. We will be escorted through this beautiful and unique property. Part of the walk will include a search for the ‘pato magico/magic duck’ on the lake!

Anything else?: Binoculars and field guides will be available. Please leave your pets at home.

We look forward to seeing you there.

On Sunday, Feb. 13th please join the San Vito Bird Club for a Half-and-Half Bird Outing.

(Half-and-Half means this outing is half bird WALK and half bird SIT.)

Meet up near the entrance to the Magic Road (you may contact me…Greg Homer…if you don’t know the location of the Magic Road. eltangaral@gmail.com). 7:00am to 8:30am

1. We will walk a few hundred meters down the Magic Road, birding along the way. Expect to see a variety of seedeaters, tanagers and flycatchers. This is the first HALF.
2. We will then reverse course and along the way have a relaxing SIT in a lovely flat spot just inside Nacientes Encantadas (a protected property of Asociación Ambiental Finca Cántaros). Five or so folding chairs will be provided, Bring a light folding chair if you have one. This is the second HALF.
3. Bring some water (snack?) and proper footwear. The Magic Road can be a bit goofy; rocks and gravel.

Hope to see you there. We’ll have fun and we’ll see some nice birds.