A kind of surprised I was to see the silver throated Jays. I only did see them on the Quetzal trail untill today
3 male Quetzales, the hormones were already running through their veins. A nice show.
Then the scintillant Hummingbirds, a lot and a lot of them were busy collecting nest material.
Since a week we have already the group Cattle Egrets sleeping in a tree nearby the Wilson bridge...
And since 2 weeks the green violet Ears are doing their "songs"
All "Summer signs" and then I get so confused as a Dutch girls to see all those heavy Oak trees...
I did start early, 5.15am I was totally awake, breakfast...feeding the horses and on my way.
The weather was o.k..view from the Wilson bridge nearby our farm.Some clouds higher up the mountains, but that was o.k..
6.45 I did start my hike. Some views were stunning..
Did see the ornate Hawk Eagle in flight(not good view , but the sound was clear) and a nice red tailed Hawk was hunting...hard to see like this, the sky was very bright.But later he flew away..great bird!
I did see only one band tailed Pigeon, wow..last time they were all over the place..
Loads of Acorn Woodpeckers (well that is logic with all the Oak trees), loads of Wilson's Warblers.
Only four Swainson's Thrushes ...yesterday a huge amount (different area..different trees)
Oh and I did start my hike with a pair of Red headed Barbets.
It was a great morning, did end in somewhat smooth rain, what was great, because the birds were coming totally out of the hiding places in the cloud forest.
Bajo Mono, Chiriquí, PA Oct 11, 2015 6:35 AM - 12:05 PM Protocol: Traveling 10.0 kilometer(s) Comments: hike...cloudy, no wind some rain at the end. Start 1500m to around 2100m 69 species (+1 other taxa) Spotted Wood-Quail 3 Ornate Hawk-Eagle 1 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Band-tailed Pigeon 1 Ruddy Pigeon 2 White-collared Swift 2 Green Violetear 5 heard more Magnificent Hummingbird 1 White-throated Mountain-gem 6 Scintillant Hummingbird 11 2 with nest materal Violet Sabrewing 1 Resplendent Quetzal 3 1 fly over ..2 ..terretorial dance in the sky(The male wows the female with elaborate flight displays, that involves flying above the canopy and then ascending while singing loudly. Orange-bellied Trogon 2 Red-headed Barbet 2 Prong-billed Barbet 5 Emerald Toucanet 4 Acorn Woodpecker 20 prob more, heard much more Hairy Woodpecker 2 Barred Parakeet 5 Sulphur-winged Parakeet 23 maybe same groups...flying around Silvery-fronted Tapaculo 1 Streak-headed Woodcreeper 1 heard Plain Xenops 1 Lineated Foliage-gleaner 3 Spotted Barbtail 2 Red-faced Spinetail 1 Mountain Elaenia 3 heard more Paltry Tyrannulet 1 Tufted Flycatcher 1 Western/Eastern Wood-Pewee 1 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 1 Willow Flycatcher 1 Yellowish Flycatcher 2 Bright-rumped Attila 1 Black-and-white Becard 2 Yellow-winged Vireo 1 Brown-capped Vireo 1 Rufous-browed Peppershrike 2 Silvery-throated Jay 2 2 seen heard more House Wren 1 Ochraceous Wren 3 Plain Wren 1 Gray-breasted Wood-Wren 2 2 seen, heard more Black-faced Solitaire 3 3 seen, heard more Ruddy-capped Nightingale-Thrush 1 Swainson's Thrush 4 Mountain Thrush 5 Tropical Mockingbird 1 Long-tailed Silky-flycatcher 13 heard much more Golden-winged Warbler 1 first one this season Black-and-white Warbler 2 Flame-throated Warbler 3 Blackburnian Warbler 1 Wilson's Warbler 13 I think I did see more, but they were everywhere..lost count Slate-throated Redstart 5 Collared Redstart 1 Silver-throated Tanager 1 Yellow-faced Grassquit 7 Common Chlorospingus 5 Chestnut-capped Brushfinch 2 Rufous-collared Sparrow 10 did see more , did not count further Yellow-thighed Finch 3 White-naped Brushfinch 6 Summer Tanager 2 Flame-colored Tanager 7 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 3 first ones this season Baltimore Oriole 1 Elegant Euphonia 2 Golden-browed Chlorophonia 5 big group , did see 5 Yellow-bellied Siskin X singing high up in the tree, big group
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