Christmas count Volcan Panama

Beautiful weather , no wind and sun and good company, great birds...great ingredients to have a fantastic Christmas bird count day.
I was participating in the "finca Hartmann" group , like last year.
Early morning 

The bird list:
Cattle Egret
black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
white tailed Hawk
laughing Falcon(heard)
road side Hawk (heard)
yellow headed Caracara
white tipped Dove
Crimson fronted Parakeet
orange chinned Parakeet
white crowned Parrot
white collared Swift
garden Emerald
snowy bellied Hummingbird
rufous tailed Hummingbird
Charming Hummingbird

purple crowned Fairy
fiery billed Aracari

chestnut mandibled Toucan

red crowned Woodpecker
streak headed Woodcreeper
southern beardless Tyrannulet
ochre bellied Flycatcher
olive striped Flycatcher
slaty capped Flycatcher
paltry Tyrannulet
tropical Pewee
dusky capped Flycatcher
social Flycatcher
tropical Kingbird
rose throated Becard!!

white ruffed Manakin
Philadelphia Vireo
lesser Greenlet
rufous breasted Wren
House Wren
white breasted Wood Wren
long billed GnatWren
tropical Gnatcatcher
clay colored Thrush
white throated Thrush
Tennessee Warbler
yellow Warbler
Chestnut sided Warbler
black throated green Warbler
bay breasted Warbler
black and white Warbler
American Redstart
Northern Waterthrush (heard)
slate throated Redstart
Cherrie's Tanager
blue gray Tanager
Palm Tanager
silver throated Tanager
Speckled Tanager
bay headed Tanager
green Honeycreeper

Bananaquit
buff throated Saltator
streaked Saltator
variable Seedeater
rufous collared Sparrow
Summer Tanager
Western Tanager!
flame colored Tanager
rose breasted Grosbeak
eastern Meadowlark(in the car)
great tailed Grackle(in the car)
Baltimore Oriole
Crested Oropendula
thick billed Euphonia
lesser Goldfinch
Mystery bird...

yellow faced Grassquit
Finca Hartmann: thank you for the hospitality and the nice coffee and juice at the end of the count...

Merry Christmas and a birdy 2014!!

                                       

Terry van Niekerk  www.coffeeadventures.net