Riverside Wren: Danta Corcovado Lodge, Puerto Jimenez, Costa Rica (Osa Peninsula) — Today marks the transition from my first December trip of 2021 to my second, as we flew from San Jose to Puerto Jimenez in a small 12 passenger plane and reached Danta Corcovado Lodge just before noon. We had time for short hike to show us “something really special” before we sat down to eat. The something special turned out to be a Fer-de-lance snake coiled up at the base of a tree right by the trail. They rushed us out to it because, of course, there was no telling when it would disappear into the forest (I posted a photo in December), but the first bird of the Osa of note was this Riverside Wren in the deep understory of the rainforest. The Riverside Wren, as it turns out, is a fairly common bird, and not hard to see, but you have to be in the Pacific Lowlands of Costa Rica and adjacent Panama, where the bird is endemic, to see it…and this was my first journey to the Osa Peninsula and its unique habitats. Like most wrens, it has a wonderful song. Sony Rx10iv at 371mm equivalent. Program mode with wildlife modifications and multi-frame noise reduction. Processed in Pixelmator Photo and Apple Photos. Equivalent ISO 6400 @ f4 @ 1/200th (very dark in there). + .3 EV.