what happend between 25th of February to 10th of March 2016...lifer...gray Kingbird

Not too much time to post on this blog.
A lot of work lately and so less time for the social media....
Today was my first day off... since ages. Still catching up with ironing, cleaning... but this afternoon we did go to David to do shopping and paying taxes :) and yes some bird watching along River Chico and yes a lifer for me!!! gray Kingbird! he was catching insects (with his colleages great Kiskadee and tropical Kingbirds) out of the river, every time when he was on a branch he was shaking himself. We gave up to take a picture, but the pictures were good enough to see some details and of course we had a good look on him with binoculars.

Also a nice view on the blue Grosbeak:

And much more.(down below the list of today)

I had quit a bit of birding trips in a lot of different areas, great birders in the cottages and sometimes in the night burning eyes from staring through the binoculars... :)
Some pictures of those days....on the Quetzal trail on the 1th of March 2016 the Masked Yellowthroat:

Also on the Quetzal trail a yellow winged Vireo, cute as ever:

Every time in cloud forest of course the Quetzal, welll it is the season for them:

 

I could not resist to take a picture from this female scintillant Hummingbird on a coffee tree( flowering) in Alto Quiel, Boquete:

The hormones are flying around , these male yellow faced Grassquits were very active to show off! (also on the Quetzal trail)

Huge amount of Mountain Thrushes on the Culebra trail ...a lot of berries are ripe now at this moment:

On the 5th of March I did see a huge migration of Turkey Vultures nearby Almirante ...Bocas del Toro.

By the way also today I did see a big group of Barn Swallows...the migration is on his way!
Also a lot of singing Trushes, fighting Saltators, thick billed Euphonia's collecting nest materials and Elegant Euphonia's making nests.
This nest is on our farm in front of the great Tinamou cottage ( http://coffeeadventures.net/Great_Tinamou_Cottage.html  )  Nest  of the stripe throated Hermit :

And this nest is from a Paltry Tyrannulet (Buena vista 3th of March 2016):

Ah and talking about Hermits...I did go yesterday with a couple to the Pipeline trail in Boquete...first time in ages!(that was always my birding spot already 20 years ago, did not change...only more people, but that makes that the birds are not shy) It was great and did found leks with green Hermits...very cool!One green Hermit was even "aggressive" to us when we did stare in the brush. ( pfff pfff temper temper!!!)

Here the bird list of today:

rio chico, Chiriquí, PA
Mar 10, 2016 4:45 PM - 5:55 PM
Protocol: Traveling
0.1 kilometer(s)
Comments:     warm breeze (36C)
48 species (+1 other taxa)

Anhinga  2
Little Blue Heron  1
Cattle Egret  3
Green Heron  1
Black Vulture  3
White-tailed Kite  1
Roadside Hawk  1
Purple Gallinule  6
Northern Jacana  2
Pale-vented Pigeon  2
Plain-breasted Ground-Dove  2
Ruddy Ground-Dove  12
Squirrel Cuckoo  1
Groove-billed Ani  5
Ringed Kingfisher  1
Red-crowned Woodpecker  4
Yellow-headed Caracara  1
Orange-chinned Parakeet  2
parrot sp.  2     contra luz
Yellow Tyrannulet  1
Lesser Elaenia  1
Paltry Tyrannulet  1
Common Tody-Flycatcher  2
Tropical Pewee  1
Great Kiskadee  2
Social Flycatcher  3     attacking a green snake in palmtree
Streaked Flycatcher  1
Piratic Flycatcher  1
Tropical Kingbird  5
Gray Kingbird  1     catching insects in/above the river ,  wet..
Fork-tailed Flycatcher  7
Red-eyed Vireo  2
Scrub Greenlet  1
Gray-breasted Martin  2
Barn Swallow  35
House Wren  1
Plain Wren  2
Yellow Warbler  3
Crimson-backed Tanager  3
Blue-gray Tanager  2
Blue-black Grassquit  11
Ruddy-breasted Seedeater  2
Thick-billed Seed-Finch  3
Yellow-bellied Seedeater  2
Rose-breasted Grosbeak  2
Blue Grosbeak  2
Eastern Meadowlark  1
Great-tailed Grackle  8
Baltimore Oriole  3 

Up to the exiting rest of the Month March!
Happy birding and greetings from Terry
http://coffeeadventures.net/tinamou.html