I have been remiss and forgot to insert some of the highlights from earlier in the day around Cano Negro. So I am going to post them here, before we move on back to Santa Rosa...
As we sidled along gently in our boat within Cano Negro National Wildlife Refuge, in sluggish waters, the wake of a bird swimming through the water caught our eye, and led us to a stunning female Sungrebe, a bird which normally hides in the shadows of overhanging vegetation, but on this occasion shocked us by brazenly swimming right out into the sunlit open water.
On the muddy banks a young Northern Jacana showed off its trademark feet, or more precisely, its absurdly long toes ("BIG Foot").
After the boat trip we ventured onto a dry dusty road where a giant tree held a BIG bird; indeed the bird is so big that it's name, Jabiru, literally means VERY BIG bird!
At the end of the day, on arriving in Santa Rosa National Park, an apricot-coloured bird in a leafless tree turned out to be our first Streak-backed Oriole; then at night, post-Pacific Screech-Owl we kept nearly tripping over Common Pauraques which were ridiculously close right outside our room on site in the national park. It may not have had a Striped Owl as its headline, but it was a fantastic day, and I seriously hope to return for birding or guiding in Cano Negro again one day...
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