{"id":1004754,"date":"2013-03-01T16:13:25","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T21:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/?p=1004754"},"modified":"2013-08-31T04:16:56","modified_gmt":"2013-08-31T09:16:56","slug":"944-and-945-near-the-tarcoles-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2013\/03\/01\/944-and-945-near-the-tarcoles-river\/","title":{"rendered":"#944 and #945 near the Tarcoles River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From La Ensenada, we drove back to San Jose; but with quite a few stops along the way. The lunch break in Tabaris added several beach species to the trip list, including Laughing Gull and Black-crowned Night-heron; but these are all long-distance migrants or widespread species of herons and gulls, so no lifers there. However I did have a life reptile, the Black Ctenosaur:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/untitled-21.jpg\" alt=\"Black Ctenosaur, Ctenosaura similis, the fastest lizard in the world\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1004841\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/untitled-21.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/untitled-21-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These things are huge! I had great trouble getting far enough away to get one in the frame with my 400mm lens.<\/p>\n<p>After lunch we stopped along a dirt road near the Tarcoles River, where we found #944, Scarlet Macaw! The last is one of those spectacular birds you think of when you think of the tropics. We only saw them at a distance, but they were pretty nonetheless.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/untitled-22.jpg\" alt=\"Scarlet Macaw in Tree\" width=\"821\" height=\"548\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1004842\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/untitled-22.jpg 821w, https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/untitled-22-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 821px) 100vw, 821px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We also picked up #945, Scrub Euphonia, a very drab little gray bird, almost the opposite of the Scarket Macaw in showiness. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From La Ensenada, we drove back to San Jose; but with quite a few stops along the way. The lunch break in Tabaris added several beach species to the trip list, including Laughing Gull and Black-crowned Night-heron; but these are all long-distance migrants or widespread species of herons and gulls, so no lifers there. However [&hellip;]<\/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-1004754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004754","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=1004754"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1004865,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004754\/revisions\/1004865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}