Bat Falcon

As we were driving down the Caribbean slope in Costa Rica, between the Continental Divide in the Central Volcanic Range and the Sarapiqui River valley in the lowland rainforest, our driver spotted this tiny Bat Falcon, waaaay over on a dead snag rising out what was left of the La Paz River canyon. I mean waaaaay over, barely a dot against the background foliage. I don’t have any idea how he spotted it. He found us a little margin on the side of the twisty mountain road and we pulled over to study the bird in the scope and take a few photographs. It was a long way awaaaay. These are the best shots I could manage with my Sony RX10iv’s 600mm equivalent. They are heavily cropped, and show the effects of all that air between camera and bird, but they are unmistakably a Bat Falcon. Bat Falcons are small falcons that live, primarily, on small birds caught in flight…but they also hunt bats and dusk, which is clearly where they got their name. Sony RX10iv at 600mm equivalent. Program mode. Processed in Polarr.

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