Now the time is there that the birds are hiding, still some singing birds, cannot find nests anymore...they are there I think... the thick billed Euphonia nest in the hanging basket is since yesterday empty, two little ones did fly out, I missed it . This picture I took a week ago or so... the arrows are pointing to the small beaks
This morning a nice singing female thick billed Euphonia in the tree. I love the songs, they are great imitators... she was imitating a buff throated Saltator, alarm call of a clay colored Thrush, song of a yellow green Vireo, a road side Hawk and rufous tailed Hummingbird. It is so interesting that you can hear on a song of this bird...what kind of birds are common in her surrounding.. I noticed that female thick billed Euphonias are more busy with imitating then males.
And these birds make a lot of baby's...wow! I counted a few days ago...24 thick billed Euphonias in the garden. With them a lot of juvenils.
So this morning I did go watching birds on the farm. Very slow and I did see a nice little Tinamou in front of me, he or she looked at me and probably thought...is she real? We had an eye contact for at least 1 minute and then she walked into the forest, that was great! Then while I was standing to see a orange billed Sparrow ... it is almost not to believe...a stripe throated Hermit was flying through my legs!!!! Yes really!
They are flying very low to the ground, because we have small plants with small red flowers in the forest ..what they really like, so I think he or she thought I was a tree.
I will add the list of the farm of this morning (down below) and the list of 2 days ago.2 Days ago Hans and I did have a day off and did go to the continental divide (in between border of province Chiriqui/ Bocas del Toro), love to go there, its only 1 our and 15 min away from us and such a different area. We had great weather, clouds and not so warm. Hans is so great.. he has good eyes, love to see the birds.. not too long in a row, so he was measuring the altitude and poor in coffee and gave me cookies :) I did walk slowly down the road...sometimes it was very slow bird wise and then suddenly (normal for the time of the year) BAM a big mixed flock.
Hans was taking care of the car and sometimes he drove by when there was not really a bird to see...and I did continue the slow pace... felt so spoilt and lucky ! It's nice to go down in altitude to see different birds.
Our gift at the end was a nice adult ornate Hawk Eagle
I will add down below my best pictures from last month......
This nice Juvenil slaty backed Nightingale Thrush on the Culebra trail 1800m last week:
And so tomorrow I have also a day off...you can guess...more birds tomorrow... I am ready for a cloud forest ... until the next time!!! Greetings Terry
http://coffeeadventures.net/tinamou.html
(for more lists.. http://ebird.org/ebird/subnational1/PA-4?yr=all&m=&rank=mrec )
Tinamou Cottage Boquete, Chiriquí, PA Aug 5, 2016 7:20 AM - 10:20 AM Comments: clouds... forest meadow garden 53 species Little Tinamou 3 1 seen 2 heard Gray-headed Chachalaca 7 Spotted Wood-Quail 1 heard group in forest close by Roadside Hawk 1 Gray-necked Wood-Rail 1 Scaled Pigeon 1 heard Ruddy Quail-Dove 1 Stripe-throated Hermit 3 Snowy-bellied Hummingbird 1 Rufous-tailed Hummingbird 3 Gartered Trogon 1 Blue-crowned Motmot 2 Red-crowned Woodpecker 3 Cocoa Woodcreeper 1 Yellow-bellied Elaenia 1 Mountain Elaenia 2 Ochre-bellied Flycatcher 1 Sepia-capped Flycatcher 1 Pale-eyed Pygmy-Tyrant 1 Common Tody-Flycatcher 2 Yellow-olive Flycatcher 1 Bright-rumped Attila 1 Boat-billed Flycatcher 2 Streaked Flycatcher 1 Tropical Kingbird 1 Lance-tailed Manakin 2 White-winged Becard 1 Yellow-green Vireo 1 Rufous-breasted Wren 2 + song Rufous-and-white Wren 2 Tropical Gnatcatcher 2 Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush 5 Clay-colored Thrush 2 White-throated Thrush 1 Buff-rumped Warbler 1 Gray-headed Tanager 1 Blue-gray Tanager 2 Palm Tanager 2 Bay-headed Tanager 3 Silver-throated Tanager 2 Scarlet-thighed Dacnis 2 Red-legged Honeycreeper 2 Yellow-faced Grassquit 2 Rosy Thrush-Tanager 3 1 seen at least 2 heard Buff-throated Saltator 2 Streaked Saltator 1 Orange-billed Sparrow 2 1 seen 1 heard, both singing Rufous-collared Sparrow 1 White-naped Brushfinch 2 Flame-colored Tanager 1 Red-crowned Ant-Tanager 1 Yellow-crowned Euphonia 2 Thick-billed Euphonia 5 2 chicks flew out yesterday
Camino de la Divisoria Continental, Ngäbe-Buglé, PA Aug 3, 2016 8:15 AM - 1:15 PM 11.0 kilometer(s) Comments: partly clouds stopped on different spots along the road 72 species (+1 other taxa) Swallow-tailed Kite 3 Ornate Hawk-Eagle 1 Great Black Hawk 1 White-throated Crake 2 heard Ruddy Pigeon 2 +song Squirrel Cuckoo 2 Groove-billed Ani 2 Vaux's Swift 13 Green Hermit 1 White-bellied Mountain-gem 1 Snowcap 1 Orange-bellied Trogon 1 Prong-billed Barbet 1 heard group in mountains Yellow-throated Toucan 3 Keel-billed Toucan 1 Bat Falcon 1 White-crowned Parrot 2 Plain Antvireo 1 Dusky Antbird 1 Silvery-fronted Tapaculo 1 heard Rufous-breasted Antthrush 1 heard very close by in brush nearby CD trail Wedge-billed Woodcreeper 1 Spotted Woodcreeper 1 Streaked Xenops 1 Streak-breasted Treehunter 3 2 seen 1 heard, very active and noisy Red-faced Spinetail 2 Rufous-browed Tyrannulet 1 Paltry Tyrannulet 1 Black-capped Pygmy-Tyrant 1 and loud song, eating small insects, long view on him, pictures...blurry...very active. Almost no tail. White eye ring, black eyes and black cap, white spectacles . Nearby pump station.(500m) Scale-crested Pygmy-Tyrant 5 did see 2 heard along the road 3 more, very active Tufted Flycatcher 2 Western Wood-Pewee 1 transient , +call Western/Eastern Wood-Pewee 3 prob 2 western and an eastern Wood Pewee(early! ) with his call! Long-tailed Tyrant 1 Dusky-capped Flycatcher 1 Social Flycatcher 1 Golden-bellied Flycatcher 3 feeding young... family Lesser Greenlet 2 Scaly-breasted Wren 1 heard House Wren 2 Ochraceous Wren 1 Long-billed Gnatwren 1 Slaty-backed Nightingale-Thrush 2 heard Clay-colored Thrush 1 Olive-crowned Yellowthroat 2 female alarm call, prob. nest in long grass Tropical Parula 1 Three-striped Warbler 3 Slate-throated Redstart 3 Passerini's Tanager 5 Blue-gray Tanager 2 Golden-hooded Tanager 3 Speckled Tanager 2 Spangle-cheeked Tanager 1 Silver-throated Tanager 3 Shining Honeycreeper 2 Blue-black Grassquit 3 Thick-billed Seed-Finch 1 Variable Seedeater 3 Bananaquit 1 Yellow-faced Grassquit 2 Buff-throated Saltator 3 Yellow-throated Chlorospingus 1 Ashy-throated Chlorospingus 3 Common Chlorospingus 10 at least 10, prob more, heard more in mixed flocks Black-striped Sparrow 3 family..feeding young Chestnut-capped Brushfinch 1 White-naped Brushfinch 2 Hepatic Tanager 1 call Black-faced Grosbeak 15 at least 15 that we count, can be more, loud Black-thighed Grosbeak 1 Montezuma Oropendola 1 Tawny-capped Euphonia 4 2 x pair Lesser Goldfinch 1
restaurante Isabel, Ngäbe-Buglé, PA Aug 3, 2016 2:15 PM - 2:25 PM Comments: on the road nearby bridge to W Mazu 6 species Gray-breasted Crake 1 spooked him, was in tall grass before bridge, heard and did see him. Rufous-tailed Hummingbird 1 Sulphur-winged Parakeet 6 Black Phoebe 1 Tropical Kingbird 2 Olive-backed Euphonia 2 high up in tree next to the river
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