Join us for another May Bird Walk next Sunday, the 25th! Fingers crossed we will see this beauty while we look around for an hour of natural history:
Brown-hooded Parrot, photo by Alison Olivieri.
As usual, we will meet at the Reception Building at 7:00 am and have binoculars to lend.
The Walk is free and open to the public, so bring all your friends and neighbors. We’ll have a social chat after the walk with coffee and (maybe) some cake!
Hope to see you there!
Take advantage of the morning sun and join us for a guided Bird Walk this Sunday, May 11, at Las Cruces/Wilson Botanical Garden.
We will meet at the Reception Building at 7:00 am and have binoculars to share.
This walk is free and open to the public, so please bring your friends, neighbors and family.
We have an excellent chance to see AND hear the beautiful Streak-headed Woodcreeper while we are there.
This photo was taken by Helen LeVasseur.
Coffee and social hour follow the Bird Walk — come one, come all!
Please join us for a Bird Walk this Sunday, April 20, at 7 am — we’ll meet at the Reception Building at OTS/Las Cruces/ Wilson Botanical Garden.
The weather is and has been amazingly beautiful for several weeks and we can’t believe our luck. Birds are in breeding plumage — some are feeding young — and butterflies are skittering along from one flower to the next in all their glory! In fact, bring your butterfly book, why not?
The Walk is free, open to the public and we have binoculars to lend.
Hope to see you there.
And no, despite this image we are not going to peer into birds’ nests, just watch them coming and going…….
On our last Bird Walk (Sunday, January 12) we were surprised and delighted to have seen a White-winged Tanager. These beautiful birds stay high in the canopy and are easy to miss, but this one was lower than usual and gave us a thrill.
Photo by Charlie Gomez
This Sunday (January 26), we will have another Bird Walk at the Wilson Botanical Garden/OTS Las Cruces Biological Research Station, at 7:00 am. As usual, we’ll meet at the Reception building and have binoculars to lend. Who knows what wonder awaits — this is why we go!
Dinner to Support the Arts
From natural beauty and art to created beauty and art, please make a reservation for a fundraising dinner at Cascata del Bosco on Saturday, January 25 to support the forthcoming Arts Fest Coto Brus 2025. Go to the website: http://www.artsfestcotobrus.com or use WhatsApp +1 (970) 759-9262 to reserve your dinner choice. In addition, music to dine by will be provided by Roger Madison — a wonderful evening is in store
And here is the White-winger Tanager again, from a different angle (because we just can’t get enough of this bird…..):
Another photo from Charlie Gomez
Take Two: we will try again this Sunday for a Bird Walk — wish us luck!
Our last attempt was two weeks ago and we were chased away by rain (continuing to fall as I write . . .).
In between drops, however, birds and butterflies are still about so please meet us at the Las Cruces Reception Building at 7:00 am.
We’ll be there for the usual free, open-to-the-public Bird/Nature Walk — your friends and family are invited.
We will have binoulars to lend and, as always, beautiful sights to see.
Crimson-fronted Parakeet, a Wilson Botanical Garden/Las Cruces regular.
Please join us this Sunday, November 3 at 7 am in the Wilson Botanical Garden at the Tropical Studies Las Cruces Biological Station.
We meet at the Reception Building and have binoculars to share.
On our last Bird Walk, we saw two of these beautiful birds and one of them was carrying nesting material. Let’s go look for a glimpse of one, sitting on the nest!
After walking for about an hour, we will have coffee and social time in the dining room. These Nature Walks are free and open to the public. Please bring your friends, neighbors and families.
Hope to see you there.
Crested Caracaras. Photo by Helen LeVasseur
Please join us for Bird and Nature Walk at the Wilson Botanical Garden this Sunday, October 20.
We will meet at the Reception Building at 7:00 am.
Binoculars will be available, as always. These Walks are free and open to the public so please invite your friends and families.
After the Walk, we will repair to the dining room for coffee and chatting. And maybe we will spot these beauties along the way!
Please join us for a Nature/Bird Walk this weekend at the beautiful Wilson Botanical Garden (also known as ‘Las Cruces’). We will meet at 7:00 am at the Reception Center and, as always, we’ll have binoculars to lend and a guide to lead.
The walk usually takes about an hour; after that we have a sociable Coffee Hour in the dining room. If you feel expansive, bring a few colones to leave for the kitchen ladies who have to wash our cups and saucers.
Common Tody-Flycatcher, photographer unknown.
It’s a fun way to spend the morning! We look forward to seeing you there!
Just a reminder, as promised, to join us tomorrow, Sunday, June 16 at 7:00 am at the Reception Building at OTS/Las Cruces/Wilson Botanical Garden.
If it is raining, we will wait a bit and if it looks promising, we’ll venture out. Birds pop out too, after the rain, to look for food — enhancing our chances of seeing them.
All San Vito Bird Club Bird Walks are free and open to the public. As usual, we will have binoculars to lend. The Walk is followed by a coffee social hour in the dining room.
Hope to see you there!
At the Annual Dia de Las Puertas Abiertas last Sunday at OTS Las Cruces, the SVBC Bake Sale was a grand success — we surpassed last year’s revenue by 25% thanks to the efforts of these industrious and generous people:
Tina Esquer Christopher
Caroljo Papac
Roni Chernin
Molly Rae
Joe Ippolito
Peter Wendell
Alison Olivieri
If we didn’t run bi-monthly Bird Walks at Las Cruces and occasional forays to local ‘birdy’ spots, we might be tempted to rename the group “San Vito Bakers’ Club”. But we will stick with our walks for now and are happy to welcome any newcomers with binoculars and bonhomie.
Speaking of which, the next walk will be Sunday, June 16. Please join us at 7:00 am at the Las Cruces Reception Building. We will walk through the Wilson Botanic Garden looking for birds and will happily help you find them. The walks are always free and open to the public. One of the guides, Peter Wendell, is fluent in Spanish so if that concerns you don’t give it another thought!
It’s a lttle early to tout the Sunday Walk so we will post a brief remnder later this week. We just couldn’t wait to thank our bakers for the cakes, cookies and breads.
San Vito Bird Club 
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