Some Raptors from Costa Rica

EricD · May 11, 2010

B]Having a blast down in Hermosa Costa Rica, Waves have been great (will post them in a different forum) and finding all kinds of birds with out really looking. Back to Florida 5-14.
First I'll start with these:, thinking Hawk in the first 3 pics, Caracara's of some sort in the rest and the last one is a Black Hawk, found him in a Mangrove. Everything but the Black Hawk was shot on or with in 20 feet of the beach at our house.[/B]
Next i will post some strange tropical looking birds!

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9 Black Hawk

kdabbagh · May 11, 2010

Great shots!
The caption for the second one should almost be:
"How about I fly beak-first into your lens?!"

Buszaj · May 12, 2010

When I read the title I expected some velociraptors

But these shots are great, very sharp. Beautiful birds, must of been a great trip!

icassell · May 13, 2010

Caption from #6: "I heard about this guy from my cousin up north."

Great shots, Eric. #7 is interesting -- looks like a mini-Bald. Is he some sort of fish eagle?

Fedaykin · May 13, 2010

Haha #1 is like "OMG!"

Great pictures.

EricD · May 13, 2010

icassell said:
Caption from #6: "I heard about this guy from my cousin up north."

Great shots, Eric. #7 is interesting -- looks like a mini-Bald. Is he some sort of fish eagle?

No..He is a Yellow Headed Caracara. They have so many different looking Caracaras here!