{"id":1004669,"date":"2013-02-24T15:49:02","date_gmt":"2013-02-24T20:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/?p=1004669"},"modified":"2013-08-28T09:26:19","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T14:26:19","slug":"859-865-at-poas-volcano-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2013\/02\/24\/859-865-at-poas-volcano-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"#859-865 at Poas Volcano National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First bird here was a Turkey Vulture. I did not come all the way to Central America to see  Turkey Vultures. The second bird was a Rufous-collared Sparrow, just like back at the hotel:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Rufous-collared-Sparrow.jpg\" alt=\"Rufous-collared Sparrow, Zonotrichia capensis in grass\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1004805\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Rufous-collared-Sparrow.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Rufous-collared-Sparrow-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But the third bird was #859 Mountain Elaenia:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Mountain-Elania.jpg\" alt=\"Mountain Elaenia perched\" width=\"900\" height=\"601\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1004806\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Mountain-Elania.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Mountain-Elania-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>#860 was a Sooty-capped Bush-Tanager, a common bird here. #861 was a Fiery-throated Hummingbird that moved way too fast to get a picture of. <\/p>\n<p>#862 was a truly Resplendent Quetzal that unfortunately never came far out enough out of the forest to get a really good picture:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Quetzal.jpg\" alt=\"Resplendent Quetzal male\" width=\"899\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1004809\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Quetzal.jpg 899w, https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Quetzal-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 899px) 100vw, 899px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>However it is a magnificent bird. <\/p>\n<p>#863 was  a sadly heard-only Silvery-fronted Tapaculo. Gray-breasted Wood-wren was also heard and not seen, though I have seen it before in Panama on the road to Altos Maria.<\/p>\n<p>#864 was  a Black-billed Nightingale-Thrush I thought I had missed, but then it came back and was really cooperative:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Black-billed-Nightingale-thrush.jpg\" alt=\"Black-billed Nightingale-Thrush\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1004810\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Black-billed-Nightingale-thrush.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Black-billed-Nightingale-thrush-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>#865 and the final life bird for the site was Black-and-yellow Silky-flycatcher.<\/p>\n<p>The volcano itself was too covered in mists\/steam\/clouds\/fog to see much but you could smell the sulfur.<\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s down the road to lunch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First bird here was a Turkey Vulture. I did not come all the way to Central America to see Turkey Vultures. The second bird was a Rufous-collared Sparrow, just like back at the hotel: But the third bird was #859 Mountain Elaenia:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004669"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1004846,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004669\/revisions\/1004846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}