little bit birding in Holland

I did go to Holland for a very short trip to visit my family..quality time with my family and of course nice moments with the Dutch birds.

I did not have a lot of time for the birds, but I did go  a few hours to my favorite spots..landje van Gruyters and the Kennemer Dunes on the bike .

Also in Holland is it molting time and so some confusing and more energy in ID's

Yes yes and a lifer for me in the Dunes...the Firecrest.(Vuurgoudhaan)

I did see before the Goldcrest(Goudhaan), but never the Firecrest, so that was fantastic!

last evening in Holland ...landje van Gruyters:

                                            common Teal (Wintertaling ):

                                               two common Buzzards (Buizerds) and black Crows:

           Eurasian Wigeon (Smienten) ..look at all the feathers on 

the water:

feathers feathers everywhere..with the orange..northern Shoveler(Slobeend):

                                             A tufted Duck(Kuifeend) in "winter cloths"

                                            a nice spot nearby landje van Gruyters:

45 common Pochards (Tafeleenden):

landje van Gruyters, Noord-Holland, NL
Sep 20, 2015 7:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Protocol: Traveling
2.0 kilometer(s)
Comments:     Cloudy
39 species

Graylag Goose  60     Probably  more....
Canada Goose  11
Mute Swan  6
Egyptian Goose  2
Common Shelduck  2
Gadwall  4
Eurasian Wigeon  6
Mallard  2
Northern Shoveler  3
Garganey  5
Green-winged Teal  9
Tufted Duck  1
Great Crested Grebe  1
Great Cormorant  7
Gray Heron  3
Eurasian Sparrowhawk  1
Eurasian Moorhen  1
Eurasian Coot  3
Black-headed Gull  7
Herring Gull  3     Fly over
Great Black-backed Gull  1     Fly over
Common Wood-Pigeon  5
Common Kingfisher  1
Eurasian Jay  1
Eurasian Magpie  2
Eurasian Jackdaw  6
Carrion Crow  2
Common House-Martin  6
Eurasian Blue Tit  4
Great Tit  3
Eurasian Nuthatch  1
Eurasian Wren  2
Willow Warbler  2
Common Chiffchaff  8
European Starling  7
Dunnock  4
White Wagtail  5
European Greenfinch  6
House Sparrow  2

                                                   
                               great spotted Woodpecker(grote bonte Specht) in the Dunes..

As much as possible ..everything on the bike!

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a nice birding trip 27th of September 2015 and this morning birding on our farm29th of September 2015.. an early MacGillivray's Warbler

Well this morning it was great weather, the last weeks I am so restless...I hear everytime migrants in our forest..in the meadow... in the coffeefarm I cannot sit or go without my Binoculars..

Yesterday morning I was sitting on our terrace with my breakfast and did see 2 nice Sepia capped Flycatcher. I thought already weeks ago that I did hear them and  see them, but I was not sure. 

But now I am sure...for sure we have  Slaty capped Flycatchers on our farm..but the sepia capped is really new for the farm. Yeah!

According the bird book not suppose to be here , we are too high in altitude(1250 m) but maybe it is the weather change...el Nino is stronger then ever and since 2 weeks we can finally talk here in our area about a wet season. Means mornings...nice sunny weather and around 2pm..1pm.. sometimes 11am some rain showers...still a different wet season then normal with less rain..so the sepia capped Flycatchers like that and here they are....

Then this morning a nice male MacGillivray's Warbler... like last time on the farm, he was moving around the horse stable...is it the same one as last time?... I wonder.....

Exciting times. Yesterday a huge amount of black burnian Warblers came through... nice for the birdwatchers, they were beginners and it was nice for them that at the end of the morning they could say...ahhhh that is our friend ...black burnian Warbler...still every Warbler ...you have to check out very well..with the plumage at this moment it can be very confusing...

I think that one "black burnian Warbler " was maybe a black throated green Warbler, immature female...but I was not sure...

Some pictures of yesterday and today:

                                                      

                                         A nice tropical Pewee this morning on our farm:

                                          Sunday a huge flock of brown throated Parakeets:

                                          a nice handsome blue gray Tanager in our garden:

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The lists:

Boquete, Chiriquí, PA
Sep 27, 2015 7:05 AM - 12:05 PM
Protocol: Traveling
4.0 kilometer(s)
Comments:     2 areas.. 1700m and 1450 m.. cloud, some sun, no wind
69 species (+1 other taxa)

Black Vulture  X
Turkey Vulture  X
Band-tailed Pigeon  X
Ruddy Ground-Dove  X
White-tipped Dove  X
Green Hermit  1
Scintillant Hummingbird  1
Violet Sabrewing  3
Stripe-tailed Hummingbird  1
White-tailed Emerald  3
Acorn Woodpecker  2
Red-crowned Woodpecker  1
Hairy Woodpecker  1     I was in the cloud forest 1700 m of Boquete, not a rare bird there
Yellow-headed Caracara  2
Barred Parakeet  5     flew over
Blue-headed Parrot  1     heard more
Sulphur-winged Parakeet  9
Brown-throated Parakeet  X     huge amount..big groups...60+
Silvery-fronted Tapaculo  2     1 seen 1 heard
Streak-headed Woodcreeper  1
Red-faced Spinetail  2
Lesser Elaenia  1
Mountain Elaenia  2
Olive-striped Flycatcher  2
Paltry Tyrannulet  2
Common Tody-Flycatcher  1
Dark Pewee  2
Eastern Wood-Pewee  2
Western/Eastern Wood-Pewee  1
Tropical Pewee  1
Yellowish Flycatcher  1
Black Phoebe  1
Social Flycatcher  2
Streaked Flycatcher  2
Brown-capped Vireo  3
Red-eyed Vireo  6     2 in cloud forest 1700m en 4 1450m
Blue-and-white Swallow  10     10 to 20
Gray-breasted Martin  7
Scaly-breasted Wren  1     heard
House Wren  2
Rufous-breasted Wren  1     heard
Rufous-and-white Wren  2
Plain Wren  1
Black-faced Solitaire  2     heard more
Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush  1
Swainson's Thrush  2     first 2 this season, pretty early, good view on them
Mountain Thrush  2
Clay-colored Thrush  4
Black-and-white Warbler  22
Tropical Parula  1
Blackburnian Warbler  8     big amount coming through  the most 6 on 1700 m and 2 1450m.. 3 sex unknown...immature female or female
Three-striped Warbler  2
Wilson's Warbler  2
Slate-throated Redstart  4
Palm Tanager  2
Bay-headed Tanager  2
Silver-throated Tanager  5
Scarlet-thighed Dacnis  1
Variable Seedeater  1
Yellow-faced Grassquit  2
Buff-throated Saltator  3
Common Chlorospingus  5
Chestnut-capped Brushfinch  2
White-naped Brushfinch  2
White-winged Tanager  3
Eastern Meadowlark  1
Yellow-crowned Euphonia  2
Elegant Euphonia  1
Golden-browed Chlorophonia  5
Lesser Goldfinch  3

Tinamou Cottage Boquete, Chiriquí, PA
Sep 29, 2015 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Protocol: Traveling
0.5 kilometer(s)
Comments:     Sunny..meadow part and the coffee farm part
54 species

Gray-headed Chachalaca  6
Spotted Wood-Quail  X     group heard in forest
Cattle Egret  1     fly over
White Hawk  1     fly over!
Gray-necked Wood-Rail  1
White-tipped Dove  1
Long-billed Starthroat  1
Snowy-bellied Hummingbird  1
Rufous-tailed Hummingbird  3
Blue-crowned Motmot  2
Red-crowned Woodpecker  1
Lineated Woodpecker  1
Yellow-headed Caracara  2
Blue-headed Parrot  3
Brown-throated Parakeet  6
Mountain Elaenia  2
Ochre-bellied Flycatcher  1
Sepia-capped Flycatcher  2
Slaty-capped Flycatcher  1
Paltry Tyrannulet  1
Pale-eyed Pygmy-Tyrant  1
Common Tody-Flycatcher  1     heard
Eastern Wood-Pewee  1
Willow Flycatcher  1
Boat-billed Flycatcher  2
Lance-tailed Manakin  5
Black-and-white Becard  1     heard in forest, not seen
House Wren  2
Rufous-breasted Wren  1
Tropical Gnatcatcher  2
Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush  1
Clay-colored Thrush  3
White-throated Thrush  2
Black-and-white Warbler  2
MacGillivray's Warbler  1
Blackburnian Warbler  2
Rufous-capped Warbler  2
Wilson's Warbler  1
Slate-throated Redstart  2
Blue-gray Tanager  2
Bay-headed Tanager  2
Silver-throated Tanager  3
Scarlet-thighed Dacnis  1
Red-legged Honeycreeper  3
Rosy Thrush-Tanager  2     probably more then 2, heard more
Buff-throated Saltator  3
Black-striped Sparrow  2
White-naped Brushfinch  2
Summer Tanager  1     second one this week, first one 2 days ago..heard
Flame-colored Tanager  1
White-winged Tanager  5
Red-crowned Ant-Tanager  1
Thick-billed Euphonia  5
Lesser Goldfinch  2     fly over

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migrants are coming through the last couple of days...14th of September 2015

This immature black burnian female was very active eating this pine tree empty.

It's a miracle that I have  a picture of her .

And this time is sometimes very confusing...check out this black and white Warbler, his "suit" has nothing to do with his "normal suit": Juvenile..it is amazing on such a young age ..such a big journey

 Miracles on wings

This afternoon this Caterpillar on our house, he was kind of fast and later I could replace him in a tree in the coffee farm.
In the future it will be a beautiful flannel moth...you almost want to touch him, he looks like a small cat. But when you do that, it will be ..like a lot of  caterpillars...very painfull...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalopyge_opercularis

  Then ...not a migrant...but along the creek on our farm , the nice buff rumped Warbler..always busy and moving around...finally I have him on a picture:

And then in the forest...Acorns all over... it feels very much like Autumn in Holland.

So much berries  and fruit at this moment, a lot of birds and animals are happy. (me too)

Also finally we did have some heavy rainstorms this week, that was really needed!

                                         

Tinamou Cottage Boquete, Chiriquí, PA
Sep 14, 2015 4:15 PM - 4:45 PM
Protocol: Stationary
Comments:     cloudy   in the coffee farm... 
28 species (+1 other taxa)

White-collared Swift  30     big group flying over
Stripe-throated Hermit  1
Long-billed Starthroat  1
Snowy-bellied Hummingbird  1
Rufous-tailed Hummingbird  1
Blue-crowned Motmot  1
Red-crowned Woodpecker  1
Bat Falcon  1     fly over, noisy
Blue-headed Parrot  9     fly over
Brown-throated Parakeet  5     fly over
Slaty-capped Flycatcher  1
Western/Eastern Wood-Pewee  1     sitting too high to ID properly, against the light
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher  1     first one this year, every year we have them on our farm.Was also calling, for me very clear.
Lance-tailed Manakin  1
Black-and-white Becard  1
Blue-and-white Swallow  1     fly over
Rufous-breasted Wren  1
Clay-colored Thrush  2
White-throated Thrush  1
Black-and-white Warbler  1
Blackburnian Warbler  1
Slate-throated Redstart  2
Blue-gray Tanager  2
Silver-throated Tanager  1
Scarlet-thighed Dacnis  3
Red-legged Honeycreeper  2
Buff-throated Saltator  3
Flame-colored Tanager  1
Thick-billed Euphonia  5

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birding trip 9th of September 2015 first Canada Warbler and Willow Flycatcher ..this season

Beautiful weather in one part of Boquete...so we did visit 2 spots, where the weather was great...no wind , some sun , some clouds...
With a Dutch couple who were really enthoussiastic and great birders, good eyes and the patience!
And so then you get the reward...a lot of great birds.

checking out a nice social Flycatcher on the banana leaf...

The list...

Boquete, Chiriquí, PA
Sep 9, 2015 7:10 AM - 12:15 PM
Protocol: Traveling
5.0 kilometer(s)
Comments:     partly cloudy
63 species

Snowy Egret  1     fly over, very good view on the bird
Turkey Vulture  2
Black Hawk-Eagle  1
Ruddy Ground-Dove  1
White-tipped Dove  1
Green Hermit  1
Green Violetear  1
Long-billed Starthroat  1
Scintillant Hummingbird  2
Garden Emerald  1
Violet Sabrewing  3
Snowy-bellied Hummingbird  1
Acorn Woodpecker  1
Red-crowned Woodpecker  2
Hairy Woodpecker  1     at 1700 m in forest
Sulphur-winged Parakeet  6
Brown-throated Parakeet  30     30+, normal for the time of the year that they are higher up in , lot of fruit trees...
Silvery-fronted Tapaculo  1
Streak-headed Woodcreeper  1
Lesser Elaenia  1
Mountain Elaenia  2
Paltry Tyrannulet  3
Common Tody-Flycatcher  1
Dark Pewee  1
Willow Flycatcher  1     first one this season
Yellowish Flycatcher  2
Black Phoebe  1
Great Kiskadee  2
Boat-billed Flycatcher  1
Social Flycatcher  2
Tropical Kingbird  2
Black-and-white Becard  1
Brown-capped Vireo  3
House Wren  1
Ochraceous Wren  1

scaly breasted Wren 1
Rufous-breasted Wren  1
Plain Wren  3
Black-faced Solitaire  5
Mountain Thrush  1
Clay-colored Thrush  2
Tropical Mockingbird  2
Louisiana Waterthrush  1
Black-and-white Warbler  1
Tropical Parula  1
Three-striped Warbler  3
Canada Warbler  1     first one this season , pretty early
Slate-throated Redstart  4
Blue-gray Tanager  2
Bay-headed Tanager  2
Silver-throated Tanager  3
Scarlet-thighed Dacnis  9
Variable Seedeater  2
Yellow-bellied Seedeater  3
Yellow-faced Grassquit  2
Streaked Saltator  2
Common Chlorospingus  5
Rufous-collared Sparrow  4
White-naped Brushfinch  2
Flame-colored Tanager  3
White-winged Tanager  2
Eastern Meadowlark  1
Lesser Goldfinch  3

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the last days... good birds...great weather..first black burnian Warbler today on our farm

I did do some nice hikes..the last couple of days and did see some nice birds..
Yesterday I just went for a short time to the cloud forest and sit on a rock ...a nice mixed flock was surrounding me..what a treat!
And when I walked back to my car a cute yellow faced grassquit was fighting with his image in the car mirror...poor guy , he was really upset.

The migrants are coming...today the first blackburnian Warbler!!on the farm .
And also on our farm the red eyed Vireo. Both in the coffeefarm area..
A few days ago a green snake was passing by while I was doing some ironing. I have in that room a great view on the garden. I heard a lot of birds very upset and there he was , a long 2 meters green Snake was in a hurry...a thick billed Euphonia Male was attacking him...really picking the head of the Snake... crazy...my discovery channel moment of the day!!!
I love to see Snakes, does not happen often..this one is a harmless green Snake...harmless for people , I bet he like to eat birds and other critters.
For the first time a great Kiskadee immature was coming close to our feeder, I took 2 pictures from our Balcony...

He did not do it ..was sitting there and observing..

The gray necked Wood Rails are noisy in the morning as also the buff rumped Warblers...our little creek in front of the little Tinamou cottage http://www.coffeeadventures.net/Little_Tinamou.html is very popular:

It was a great week with finally some good showers! Up to a brand new week...

The lists of the last days...la India, Chiriquí, PA

Sep 4, 2015 8:00 AM - 10:45 AM
Protocol: Traveling
6.0 kilometer(s)
Comments:     hike..warm sunny

43 species (+1 other taxa)

Cattle Egret  3
Black Vulture  1
Turkey Vulture  1
Black Hawk-Eagle  1
Roadside Hawk  1
Ruddy Pigeon  1
White-tipped Dove  1
Stripe-throated Hermit  1
Garden Emerald  1
Violet Sabrewing  1
Snowy-bellied Hummingbird  1
Rufous-tailed Hummingbird  2
Acorn Woodpecker  3
Smoky-brown Woodpecker  1
Yellow-headed Caracara  1
Brown-throated Parakeet  4
Mountain Elaenia  1
Paltry Tyrannulet  1
Western/Eastern Wood-Pewee  1
Tropical Kingbird  2
Masked Tityra  3
House Wren  1
Plain Wren  1
Tropical Gnatcatcher  2
Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush  1
Clay-colored Thrush  2
Tropical Mockingbird  3
Louisiana Waterthrush  1
Tropical Parula  2
Rufous-capped Warbler  2
Buff-rumped Warbler  1
Slate-throated Redstart  2
Blue-gray Tanager  2
Silver-throated Tanager  1
Red-legged Honeycreeper  3
Blue-black Grassquit  1
Yellow-bellied Seedeater  2
Yellow-faced Grassquit  2
Buff-throated Saltator  3
Streaked Saltator  1     heard
Black-striped Sparrow  1
Flame-colored Tanager  1
Eastern Meadowlark  1
Lesser Goldfinch  3

Sendero Culebra, Chiriquí, PA
Sep 5, 2015 8:45 AM - 9:50 AM
Protocol: Stationary
Comments:     Sunny, sitting on a rock in the forest...did not count

31 species

White-collared Swift  1     group flew over
White-throated Mountain-gem  1
Scintillant Hummingbird  1
Hairy Woodpecker  1
Red-faced Spinetail  2
Mountain Elaenia  1
Paltry Tyrannulet  1
Dark Pewee  1
Brown-capped Vireo  2
Rufous-browed Peppershrike  1
Blue-and-white Swallow  1     small group flew by
Ochraceous Wren  1
Gray-breasted Wood-Wren  1
American Dipper  1
Black-faced Solitaire  1
Slaty-backed Nightingale-Thrush  1     heard
Mountain Thrush  1
Black-and-white Warbler  2
Flame-throated Warbler  1
Black-cheeked Warbler  1
Slate-throated Redstart  1
Collared Redstart  1
Spangle-cheeked Tanager  1
Silver-throated Tanager  1
Yellow-faced Grassquit  1     fighting with his image in the mirror of my car
Common Chlorospingus  1
Yellow-thighed Finch  1
White-naped Brushfinch  1
Flame-colored Tanager  1
Black-thighed Grosbeak  1
Yellow-bellied Siskin  1

Tinamou Cottage Boquete, Chiriquí, PA
Sep 6, 2015 3:50 PM - 5:00 PM

Protocol: Traveling
0.5 kilometer(s)
Comments:     birding in the forest/coffeefarm part...sunny
38 species

Black Hawk-Eagle  1     flew over
Gray-necked Wood-Rail  2
White-tipped Dove  1
Stripe-throated Hermit  1
Long-billed Starthroat  1     

Snowy-bellied Hummingbird  1
Rufous-tailed Hummingbird  3
Blue-crowned Motmot  1
Red-crowned Woodpecker  1
Laughing Falcon  1
Brown-throated Parakeet  4     fly over
Mountain Elaenia  1
Slaty-capped Flycatcher  4
Paltry Tyrannulet  1
Pale-eyed Pygmy-Tyrant  1
Lance-tailed Manakin  2
Red-eyed Vireo  1
Rufous-browed Peppershrike  1
Black-chested Jay  5
House Wren  1
Rufous-breasted Wren  1
Plain Wren  1
Tropical Gnatcatcher  2
Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush  2
Clay-colored Thrush  5
White-throated Thrush  2
Black-and-white Warbler  2
Rufous-capped Warbler  3
Blue-gray Tanager  2
Scarlet-thighed Dacnis  1
Rosy Thrush-Tanager  1
Buff-throated Saltator  2
Streaked Saltator  1
Flame-colored Tanager  1
White-winged Tanager  2
Red-crowned Ant-Tanager  7
Thick-billed Euphonia  5
Lesser Goldfinch  1

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2th of September 2015 birding morning

I was planning to hike for a few hours with my dog Spot...well it became a little bit more, I really did see the whole trail birds birds birds... So that was a little bit longer morning that I was planned...
The weather was good , same as last Monday, birds and me like that weather...
....I did start with a nice orange bellied Trogon and then it went on and on.
The silver fronted Tapaculo's were noisy , I took a picture...but it is too blurry. But then the eye ringed Flatbill's.. they were fighting , never see that before...this one won, in my eyes...he look like he has a lot of confidence! :

orange bellied Trogon:

just a great scenery:

Autumn in Boquete...:

My list of this morning ...not bad for a "hike"

Jaramillo arriba, Chiriquí, PA
Sep 2, 2015 7:50 AM - 10:55 AM
Protocol: Traveling
5.0 kilometer(s)
Comments:     Sunny cloudy, some wind
54 species

Black Guan  2
Spotted Wood-Quail  3
Ruddy Ground-Dove  2
White-tipped Dove  1
Green Hermit  1
Green Violetear  5
White-throated Mountain-gem  1
Scintillant Hummingbird  1
Violet Sabrewing  3
Stripe-tailed Hummingbird  1
White-tailed Emerald  1
Orange-bellied Trogon  1
Prong-billed Barbet  5
Acorn Woodpecker  2
Hairy Woodpecker  2
Sulphur-winged Parakeet  7
Silvery-fronted Tapaculo  8     heard 5 did see 3 along the trail
Buffy Tuftedcheek  1
Lineated Foliage-gleaner  1
Red-faced Spinetail  4
Mountain Elaenia  2
Olive-striped Flycatcher  1
Ochre-bellied Flycatcher  1
Paltry Tyrannulet  2
Eye-ringed Flatbill  2     2 birds fighting
White-throated Spadebill  2
Olive-sided Flycatcher  1     first one this season.
Dark Pewee  2
Yellowish Flycatcher  1
Yellow-winged Vireo  2
Brown-capped Vireo  7
Scaly-breasted Wren  1     heard
Ochraceous Wren  2
Gray-breasted Wood-Wren  2     2 seen heard more
Black-faced Solitaire  2
Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush  1
Mountain Thrush  2
Long-tailed Silky-flycatcher  3
Louisiana Waterthrush  1
Black-and-white Warbler  1
Flame-throated Warbler  2
Tropical Parula  2
Three-striped Warbler  2
Slate-throated Redstart  1
Silver-throated Tanager  4
Yellow-faced Grassquit  2
Common Chlorospingus  7
Chestnut-capped Brushfinch  2
Rufous-collared Sparrow  3
Yellow-thighed Finch  2
Flame-colored Tanager  1
White-winged Tanager  3
Golden-browed Chlorophonia  5
Lesser Goldfinch  2

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