Andrew Wappat

Glen Lochy, Argyl & Bute, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 at lunchtime today. Silence but for River Lochy. Glorious.

They really are!

Golden-hooded tanager, Arenal, CR 🇨🇷 My favourite bird seen in Costa Rica, in four different locations. Always a thrill when one appeared. Incredible colours. This from 30.1.26 #birds #birdingcostarica

Mealy amazon, Tortuguero, CR 🇨🇷
Didn’t get many close views of this parrot species, but pleased when one was more interested in a having a low canopy meal than avoiding me. By the national park entrance, 3.2.2026 #birds #birdingcostarica

Snow bunting, South Gare, Redcar
16 feeding along the dunes; plenty of skylark displaying, linnets and goldfinch too in the bursts of sunshine. @teesbirds.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social #birds #ukbirding @teeswildlife.bsky.social

Beauties. 😊

Tundra bean goose, Ruswarp, Whitby
One of two still present noon in fields beyond train station, with 18 white-fronts. With thanks to @paulnewton61.bsky.social and Mark E for info. @nybirdnews.bsky.social @teesbirds.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social

Crested caracara, Golfito CR 🇨🇷
Enjoyed watching this beauty dodging traffic on the Vía 245 to extract a basilisk corpse. 7.2.2026 #birds #birdingcostarica

Wonderful! 🤣

Yellow-headed caracara, Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica 🇨🇷 8.2.2026. Pair were kind enough to appear and pose whilst I was checking out random patches of water. #birds #birdingcostarica

White-throated dipper, Little Ayton
Local bird looking well, singing delicately this evening. @teesbirds.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social #birds #ukbirding

Quite quite make it out! Lesser kestrel? 🤣

Grey-lined hawk, Rio Tigre, Costa Rica 🇨🇷. Only one I saw on the trip, whilst checking below the bridge with the 245 near Puerto Jiménez. #birds #birdingcostarica

Scintillant hummingbird, 2200m at San Gerardo de Dota, San José, Costa Rica 🇨🇷. So many contrasts, best photo I could manage. 10.2.2026 #birds #birdingcostarica

Green kingfisher, San José, Costa Rica 🇨🇷. Hunting a grey water drainage channel on the city outskirts, 11.2.2026. Undisturbed by large basilisk that appeared on next boulder. #birds #birdingcostarica

White-throated mountain-gem, San Gerardo de Dota, Costa Rica 🇨🇷
A few more new beautiful hummingbird species seen in the final 24 hours of our roadtrip, 10.2.2026. #birds #birdingcostarica

I need to return for a few key birds (and the history) 🤣

Marsh tit, resident at Lockwood Beck this lunchtime. An opportunity for me to acclimatise back to UK temperature and snow on the moors. 🥶 @teesbirds.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social #birds #ukbirding

Black-cheeked woodpecker, Tortuguero, Costa Rica, in the rain. Four on the same tree, whilst I was busy photographing slaty-backed trogon in the village of San Francisco de Tortuguero. Vast nature reserve only accessible by boat. #birdingcostarica 🇨🇷 #birds

Slaty-tailed trogon, Tortuguero, Costa Rica. Two hour boat/hike in torrential rain up to Cerro Tortuguero, four of these beauties fighting with kiskadee back at the launch! #birdingcostarica #birds

Montezuma oropendola, Alajuela, CR
Finally some good views today after we’d driven around Lake Arenal to El Castillo. Stunning tail in flight too. #birdingcostarica #birds 29.01.26

Too close to focus! Was very lucky. Lifer for me. 😊

Yellow-throated warbler, Tulum 🇲🇽
Been hearing these chipping away in the undergrowth but finally saw one feeding on the cliff edge, at the Tulum Mayan Ruins this morning. Cracker. #birdingmexico #birds

Ferruginous pygmy-owl, Cancun 🇲🇽
Up early this morning to collect the hire car from the airport, pleased to see this beauty out and about. #birdingmexico #birds

Ferruginous pygmy-owl, Cancun 🇲🇽
Up early this morning to collect the hire car from the airport, pleased to see this beauty out and about. #birdingmexico

Thanks Ciaran. 👍

Black redstart, Skinningrove
Stunning male having a preen this morning, with boat hull backdrop. Showing well still after several days. Richard’s pipit up on the cliffs too, although elusive, barn owl same spot. @teesbirds.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social #birds #ukbirding

Have a cracking trip!

Treecreeper, Scaling Dam
Surprised to have this one right next to the hide door today, more normally seen in the pine woods. @teesbirds.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social

Willow tit, Scaling Dam
Good to enjoy one of our locals clinging on to its habitat, today. @teesbirds.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social #birds #ukbirding