Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Early bird morning

Kay and I went this morning to Los Cangilones de Gualaca, curious if it is a nice birding area... it was beautiful , but not too much birds.

Lot of Flycatchers, on the road to the place, a nice American Kestrel.(picture down below)
After that we went to the hot springs , but also there it was not really birdie, but that was already around 11am
But any way it was a nice morning.
We saw at least 2 dead Snakes on the road and on my way to home, I saw this green Snake on the road ...the green vine Snake...Oxybelis fulgidus     

Unfortunately I have to say on this bird blog...The diet of this snake consists mostly of lizards and birds. Some Green Vine Snakes specialize in small hummingbirds, positioning themselves near flowers where the birds feed and striking from close distance.

Read more: Green Vine Snake Facts | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/facts_5444582_green-vine-snake.html#ixzz1XzHRt8pa

Well that is nature....he has to eat also.

An addition about the snake from Dan Wade:
 Your Green Vine Snake is a sit-and-wait predator. Usually if a critter is cryptic, is a predator, you can assume it is of the 'sit-and-wait' strategy, rather than a actively chasing its prey. Sitting motionless in greenery, this snake makes a living, by eating whatever comes close unknowingly close enough to strike (of course, it has to qualify as 'prey', as there are critters that will eat the snake!)
And while it will eat small hummers if able, I'd guess that its diet consists mostly of anoles and other small reptiles, maybe large insects too.

Birdlist
Turkey Vulture
black Vulture
spotted Sandpiper
yellow headed Caracara
American Kestrel

pale vented Pigeon
ruddy ground Dove
white tipped Dove
rufous tailed Hummingbird
another female Hummingbird, bathing herself in wet leaves, no ID (maybe...the bronze tailed Plumeleteer)
blue crowned Motmot
black chested Jay
red crowned Woodpecker
tropical Gnatcatcher
Panama Flycatcher
tropical Kingbird
social Flycatcher
dusky capped Flycatcher
sulphur bellied Flycatcher
Northern scub-flycatcher (picture )


clay colored Thrush
common tody Flycatcher
lesser Greenlet
blue gray Tanager
great tailed Grackle
eastern Meadowlark
gray breasted Martins

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