Buff-throated Saltator and Black-cowled Oriole

There is a little Soda (mom and pop restaurant) and art gallery (Galeria de Calibries y Restaurante Cinchona) just up the road from La Paz Waterfall Gardens in Costa Rica, right up near the continental divide, on the way north from San Jose to the Sarapiqui region. They have a little deck built out over the steep drop into the Saraqiqui River Canyon, and both hummingbird and fruit feeders out for the birds. For $2 you can stop and watch the birds and be served a cup of coffee and a snack. Plus they have excellent views of the San Fernando Waterfall, one of the highest in Costa Rica, across the canyon. When we visited, we saw this moment of conflict on the fruit feeder between a Buff-throated Saltator and a Black-cowled Oriole (that is the ubiquitous Clay-colored Thrush, national bird of Costa Rica, out of focus in the foreground). Interesting moment. Sony RX10iv at 600mm equivalent. Anti-motion Blur mode. Processed in Polarr.

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