We were standing in the yard discussing the house color, when to eat lunch, and other mundane things when a flash of color caught my eye from the huge tree on the other side of our fence. I grab the camera on the nearby table, and Joel runs for the binoculars.
Between the zoom feature on the camera and the binoculars, we realized that we were looking at no ordinary birds!! If my bird book and research are correct, they are fiery billed aracari. It’s hard to get clear photos of birds flitting about in the top of a tree 30-40 feet above us, but we got a few good ones. I know there were at least two birds, and I think there could have been as many as four.
According to what I have read, these are fairly rare birds who live only in a small area of eastern Costa Rica and western Panama, on the Pacific side in wooded areas. I am so glad we have a house right next to the woods. We have so many birds but this is the coolest one so far!
What a great treat to see these beautiful birds! They were silent as far as we could tell so if we hadn’t been standing out in the yard, and if another bird flying towards the tree hadn’t caught my eye, we never would have seen them. Thank you Joel for helping me get some good photos.
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Nice. I really want to be there and your blog adds to my excitement.
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It’s only a plane ride away…. (and some money, and a bus ride…) I hope you can come here!
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Kris, sorry to disagree with you, but my bird book says they are threecans. You were off by one.
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HA! If we’re talking three cans around here, it’s cervezas 😀
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Kris, these are amazing! Love that you have the opportunity to see these AT HOME!
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I know, isn’t that something! 😀
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Just blessed 😉
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for sure 🙂
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LOVE THESE! I hope to see these someday really soon!
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This is the first time I’ve seen them, so I think we were really lucky
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Fantastic! I saw toucans on the Rio Dulce in Guatemala but never here.
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I’d never seen them here before either. It was a lucky day
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Buenas – We live vicariously through your Blog posts as you have a much different eco system then we have here in Pedasi.
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I am so looking forward to seeing your area! Husband is supposed to be making travel arrangements so I’ll let you know
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WOW!!! How cool is this? I guess I just have one question. DO THEY TASTE LIKE CHICKEN?? :).
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You want chicken? We have chicken! If I catch you eating any of the wildlife around my house, we will see if YOU taste like chicken!! 😀
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Nah, like everything else strange, they taste like rattlesnake.
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You too! Quit eyeing the wildlife around here! No no no no, no one is eating the wildlife. Sheesh 😀
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The birds are one of the things we are looking forward to seeing on our trip. We should be so lucky!
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Maybe! You just never know what you will see around here. We’ve never seen these before though so it was a very lucky day.
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