horror on our farm....28th of May 2016

This is the time that the immatures are  flying out , when they are lucky... and hope that they will survive Everyday I hear at least 10 times horror sounds, upset birds ...good opportunity also to see a lot of  different species of birds together in one time, just point to the area where the danger is and check it out. Birds they are suddenly united and will try to get rid of the predator. Yesterday a roadside Hawk was at a nest of Orange billed Nightingale Trush. He flew out with nothing, because all the birds were chasing him...with success. This morning...no success. In not even 10 seconds he went in the brush and took an immature orange billed Nightingale Thrush.... no chance in hell the brother and sisterhood birds could avoid this smart Hawk to grab that little one out of the nest..
Poor parents... they have to make new baby's even on a more secret place...I took a picture of the poor parent.

And the unfortunate baby bird in the claw of the roadside Hawk, I found them in the meadow... the Hawk has probably also baby's to feed...and maybe that baby will fall in the claws of the new bird on our farm...the great black Hawk.. ah well, that is how it is....and goes...

Greetings Terry
http://coffeeadventures.net/tinamou.html

Global big day 14th of May 2016

Yes I am somewhat late to write this blog , but I think never too late to tell about our day out on global big day.  http://ebird.org/content/ebird/news/gbd2016/
Last year I did go to the  Batipa farm with a small group of birdwatchers..this year I loved to go with my own husband and have a nice day out.
We were up at 5am. I had my breakfast on the balcony and the plan was to listen and when it was somewhat lighter to see the birds.
Of course May is the time to listen anyway, so much different songs.
A good start of the day was that the tropical screech Owl was flying by...fantastic! Unfortunately I did not hear ...like the day before and the day after the common Potoo.. well we cannot have them all on the list.
At 6 05 am we did go to the first spot, very close by, the Wilson's bridge.
Down below I will add my list of the 14th of May 2016

We decided not to go to the higher cloud forest, but start at our farm 1250m go down ... to 600 m ...to sea level.. Puerto Armuelles. Of course we did arrive in Puerto Armuelles on the heat of the day...but I think when we would go directly , it is 2,5 hour drive , we would arrive later anyway and now we did see quit a bit of birds on the way.Very nice was to see the white fronted Parrot ... (Palma real 600m)

  I only did see this bird in Bocas del Toro until now.
And I took a picture from this lazy scaly breasted Hummingbird ...

Costa Rican Brush Finch was for me a "lifer"(I think)...I did see before the stripe headed Brush Finch (I think) somewhere in the highlands, higher altitude, 7th of March 2001... 15years (oh my gosh!) ago on the Quetzal trail, this one is very simular, but it was exciting to see. I did check the web about this bird, because I was confused, still a little bit... "The Costa Rican brush finch is often treated as a subspecies of the stripe-headed brush finch (A. torquatus), but was determined a distinct species, together with the black-headed brush finch, on the basis of differences in vocalization, plumage, and genetics.^{[4] "}

  
 Subspecies...again!! Ahhhh.

Around noon we did arrive on the coast in Puerto Armuelles, first some spotting in town. I love the town with their nice wooden houses..so much history...

Then to the beach areas , checking out some small delta's, some creeks..we never did see so much Kingfishers. Also we took our time to watch from a bridge a family of 4 green Kingfishers, the parents were fishing and feeding their baby's, very nice!

We had a great day, came home around 7pm and right away I download my ebird lists and checked out what other birders did that day, always fun to have the feeling and knowledge that a lot of other birders all over the world went out that day...

And so that was it...after this nice picture of the magnificent Frigatebirds...our list of that day...

  

Greetings Terry
http://coffeeadventures.net/tinamou.html

1	Little Tinamou	Tinamou Cottage Boquete	PA-CH	14 May 2016
2	Spotted Wood-Quail	Tinamou Cottage Boquete	PA-CH	14 May 2016
3	White-tipped Dove	Tinamou Cottage Boquete	PA-CH	14 May 2016
4	Tropical Screech-Owl	Tinamou Cottage Boquete	PA-CH	14 May 2016
5	Rufous-tailed Hummingbird	Tinamou Cottage Boquete	PA-CH	14 May 2016
6	Blue-crowned Motmot	Tinamou Cottage Boquete	PA-CH	14 May 2016
7	Red-crowned Woodpecker	Tinamou Cottage Boquete	PA-CH	14 May 2016
8	Yellow-headed Caracara	Tinamou Cottage Boquete	PA-CH	14 May 2016
9	Streak-headed Woodcreeper	Tinamou Cottage Boquete	PA-CH	14 May 2016
10	Yellow-bellied Elaenia	Tinamou Cottage Boquete	PA-CH	14 May 2016
11	Mountain Elaenia	Tinamou Cottage Boquete	PA-CH	14 May 2016
12	Paltry Tyrannulet	Tinamou Cottage Boquete	PA-CH	14 May 2016
13	Lance-tailed Manakin	Tinamou Cottage Boquete	PA-CH	14 May 2016
14	Yellow-green Vireo	Tinamou Cottage Boquete	PA-CH	14 May 2016
15	House Wren	Tinamou Cottage Boquete	PA-CH	14 May 2016
16	Rufous-and-white Wren	Tinamou Cottage Boquete	PA-CH	14 May 2016
17	Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush	Tinamou Cottage Boquete	PA-CH	14 May 2016
18	Clay-colored Thrush	Tinamou Cottage Boquete	PA-CH	14 May 2016
19	White-throated Thrush	Tinamou Cottage Boquete	PA-CH	14 May 2016
20	Rufous-capped Warbler	Tinamou Cottage Boquete	PA-CH	14 May 2016
21	Blue-gray Tanager	Tinamou Cottage Boquete	PA-CH	14 May 2016
22	Bay-headed Tanager	Tinamou Cottage Boquete	PA-CH	14 May 2016
23	Silver-throated Tanager	Tinamou Cottage Boquete	PA-CH	14 May 2016
24	Yellow-faced Grassquit	Tinamou Cottage Boquete	PA-CH	14 May 2016
25	Rosy Thrush-Tanager	Tinamou Cottage Boquete	PA-CH	14 May 2016
26	Buff-throated Saltator	Tinamou Cottage Boquete	PA-CH	14 May 2016
27	Black-striped Sparrow	Tinamou Cottage Boquete	PA-CH	14 May 2016
28	Rufous-collared Sparrow	Tinamou Cottage Boquete	PA-CH	14 May 2016
29	White-naped Brushfinch	Tinamou Cottage Boquete	PA-CH	14 May 2016
30	Flame-colored Tanager	Tinamou Cottage Boquete	PA-CH	14 May 2016
31	Thick-billed Euphonia	Tinamou Cottage Boquete	PA-CH	14 May 2016
32	Elegant Euphonia	Tinamou Cottage Boquete	PA-CH	14 May 2016
33	Gray-headed Chachalaca	puente Wilson Boquete	PA-CH	14 May 2016
34	Green Heron	puente Wilson Boquete	PA-CH	14 May 2016
35	Black Vulture	puente Wilson Boquete	PA-CH	14 May 2016
36	White-collared Swift	puente Wilson Boquete	PA-CH	14 May 2016
37	Common Tody-Flycatcher	puente Wilson Boquete	PA-CH	14 May 2016
38	Social Flycatcher	puente Wilson Boquete	PA-CH	14 May 2016
39	Piratic Flycatcher	puente Wilson Boquete	PA-CH	14 May 2016
40	Tropical Kingbird	puente Wilson Boquete	PA-CH	14 May 2016
41	Blue-and-white Swallow	puente Wilson Boquete	PA-CH	14 May 2016
42	Tropical Mockingbird	puente Wilson Boquete	PA-CH	14 May 2016
43	Great-tailed Grackle	puente Wilson Boquete	PA-CH	14 May 2016
44	Cattle Egret	between Boquete to porterillos abajo	PA-CH	14 May 2016
45	Turkey Vulture	between Boquete to porterillos abajo	PA-CH	14 May 2016
46	White-tailed Kite	between Boquete to porterillos abajo	PA-CH	14 May 2016
47	Pale-vented Pigeon	between Boquete to porterillos abajo	PA-CH	14 May 2016
48	Ruddy Ground-Dove	between Boquete to porterillos abajo	PA-CH	14 May 2016
49	Groove-billed Ani	between Boquete to porterillos abajo	PA-CH	14 May 2016
50	Fiery-billed Aracari	between Boquete to porterillos abajo	PA-CH	14 May 2016
51	Crested Caracara	between Boquete to porterillos abajo	PA-CH	14 May 2016
52	Red-lored Parrot	between Boquete to porterillos abajo	PA-CH	14 May 2016
53	Brown-throated Parakeet	between Boquete to porterillos abajo	PA-CH	14 May 2016
54	Great Kiskadee	between Boquete to porterillos abajo	PA-CH	14 May 2016
55	Streaked Flycatcher	between Boquete to porterillos abajo	PA-CH	14 May 2016
56	Fork-tailed Flycatcher	between Boquete to porterillos abajo	PA-CH	14 May 2016
57	Scrub Greenlet	between Boquete to porterillos abajo	PA-CH	14 May 2016
58	Gray-breasted Martin	between Boquete to porterillos abajo	PA-CH	14 May 2016
59	Cherrie's Tanager	between Boquete to porterillos abajo	PA-CH	14 May 2016
60	Streaked Saltator	between Boquete to porterillos abajo	PA-CH	14 May 2016
61	Roadside Hawk	palma real	PA-CH	14 May 2016
62	White-throated Crake	palma real	PA-CH	14 May 2016
63	Garden Emerald	palma real	PA-CH	14 May 2016
64	Scaly-breasted Hummingbird	palma real	PA-CH	14 May 2016
65	Orange-chinned Parakeet	palma real	PA-CH	14 May 2016
66	White-crowned Parrot	palma real	PA-CH	14 May 2016
67	Dusky Antbird	palma real	PA-CH	14 May 2016
68	Pale-breasted Spinetail	palma real	PA-CH	14 May 2016
69	Southern Beardless-Tyrannulet	palma real	PA-CH	14 May 2016
70	Yellow Tyrannulet	palma real	PA-CH	14 May 2016
71	Willow Flycatcher	palma real	PA-CH	14 May 2016
72	Bright-rumped Attila	palma real	PA-CH	14 May 2016
73	Black-and-white Becard	palma real	PA-CH	14 May 2016
74	Lesser Greenlet	palma real	PA-CH	14 May 2016
75	Rufous-breasted Wren	palma real	PA-CH	14 May 2016
76	Plain Wren	palma real	PA-CH	14 May 2016
77	Palm Tanager	palma real	PA-CH	14 May 2016
78	Golden-hooded Tanager	palma real	PA-CH	14 May 2016
79	Red-legged Honeycreeper	palma real	PA-CH	14 May 2016
80	Blue-black Grassquit	palma real	PA-CH	14 May 2016
81	Variable Seedeater	palma real	PA-CH	14 May 2016
82	Yellow-bellied Seedeater	palma real	PA-CH	14 May 2016
83	Bananaquit	palma real	PA-CH	14 May 2016
84	Orange-billed Sparrow	palma real	PA-CH	14 May 2016
85	Melodious Blackbird	palma real	PA-CH	14 May 2016
86	Bronzed Cowbird	palma real	PA-CH	14 May 2016
87	Yellow-billed Cacique	palma real	PA-CH	14 May 2016
88	Crested Oropendola	palma real	PA-CH	14 May 2016
89	Scarlet-thighed Dacnis	alan Her El mirador	PA-CH	14 May 2016
90	Costa Rican Brushfinch	alan Her El mirador	PA-CH	14 May 2016
91	Lesser Goldfinch	alan Her El mirador	PA-CH	14 May 2016
92	Smooth-billed Ani	bugaba.. concepcion	PA-CH	14 May 2016
93	Magnificent Frigatebird	puerto armuelles downtown	PA-CH	14 May 2016
94	Great Egret	puerto armuelles downtown	PA-CH	14 May 2016
95	Snowy Egret	puerto armuelles downtown	PA-CH	14 May 2016
96	White Ibis	puerto armuelles downtown	PA-CH	14 May 2016
97	Rock Pigeon	puerto armuelles downtown	PA-CH	14 May 2016
98	Gray-capped Flycatcher	puerto armuelles downtown	PA-CH	14 May 2016
99	House Sparrow	puerto armuelles downtown	PA-CH	14 May 2016
100	Great Tinamou	Petroterminal de Panamá	PA-CH	14 May 2016
101	Brown Pelican	Petroterminal de Panamá	PA-CH	14 May 2016
102	Bare-throated Tiger-Heron	Petroterminal de Panamá	PA-CH	14 May 2016
103	Little Blue Heron	Petroterminal de Panamá	PA-CH	14 May 2016
104	Pearl Kite	Petroterminal de Panamá	PA-CH	14 May 2016
105	Swallow-tailed Kite	Petroterminal de Panamá	PA-CH	14 May 2016
106	Common Black Hawk	Petroterminal de Panamá	PA-CH	14 May 2016
107	Black-bellied Plover	Petroterminal de Panamá	PA-CH	14 May 2016
108	Striped Cuckoo	Petroterminal de Panamá	PA-CH	14 May 2016
109	Ringed Kingfisher	Petroterminal de Panamá	PA-CH	14 May 2016
110	Amazon Kingfisher	Petroterminal de Panamá	PA-CH	14 May 2016
111	Green Kingfisher	Petroterminal de Panamá	PA-CH	14 May 2016
112	Lineated Woodpecker	Petroterminal de Panamá	PA-CH	14 May 2016
113	Bat Falcon	Petroterminal de Panamá	PA-CH	14 May 2016
114	Barred Antshrike	Petroterminal de Panamá	PA-CH	14 May 2016
115	Black-hooded Antshrike	Petroterminal de Panamá	PA-CH	14 May 2016
116	Cocoa Woodcreeper	Petroterminal de Panamá	PA-CH	14 May 2016
117	Black-crowned Tityra	Petroterminal de Panamá	PA-CH	14 May 2016
118	Riverside Wren	Petroterminal de Panamá	PA-CH	14 May 2016
119	Eastern Meadowlark	Petroterminal de Panamá	PA-CH	14 May 2016
120	Black Phoebe	cuesta del piedra	PA-CH	14 May 2016
121	Crested Bobwhite	palma real	PA-CH	14 May 2016
122	Gray-necked Wood-Rail	palma real	PA-CH	14 May 2016
123	Buff-rumped Warbler	palma real	PA-CH	14 May 2016
124	Common Pauraque	entrada por caldera	PA-CH	14 May 2016