Mostly in the morning there are clouds sometimes rain, sometimes rainstorms.
Yesterday (24th) suddenly wind from the north and yes rain in the Caribbean (they were complaining about NO rain there) here sun on the farm and we heard the wind but that is more like as in December/January and February behind the farm, we are situated in a valley and we don't get the wind, so that is what the birds knew..they were on our farm :) and I was surrounded by them. Loads of migrant birds. Finally groups of Tennessee Warblers, so now migration really starts! Keep my eyes open for rare transients, but all the birds are welcome!of course.
I will add my bird list of yesterday to this blog..see down below. I am sure I did miss a lot of other birds, but like to ID the migrant Warblers if they are male or female, so that is "work", especially Warblers are moving a lot and fast. I took some pictures, but did not go well, blurry and so... just quit with that and took my time to ID them well.
Very nice was the moment that I did see Tennessee Warblers, flame colored Tanager, Scarlet Tanager, red crowned Woodpecker, rufous capped Warbler taking a bath in a little stream nearby the stable. I could hide myself and observed them, fun!
In the afternoon Hans and I did go for a ride, checking out the little lake in Estrella, not too much birds, but these gray breasted Martins and blue and white Swallows were fun to observe when they were catching mosquitoes out of the water. And cleaning themselves after that:
We decided to check out the river nearby Paja de sombrero:
Sunny weather as you see...some cormorants, Cattle Egrets, Amazon Kingfisher and this cool ringed Kingfisher, I took this one through my scoop:
He looks almost not real... :)
It was really quiet everywhere (21 C so not hot weather)....our theory was that the birds did eat so much food that they were already hiding and sleeping. This blue black Grosbeak was just sitting there and staring at us:
And so around 6 pm we were almost back home and decided to stop on the bridge nearby our farm. We did see the Bat Falcon hunting and catching a big bug and there were two Otters !!! The light was good enough to take a small video, but the pictures were blurry. You can see the video on the Tinamou cottage facebook... https://www.facebook.com/tinamoucottage/?fref=ts
All the cattle Egrets are roosting there like every year...when the whole group is back, like on the picture...the dry season will start soon!
What a great end of our day, the Otter and the whole day busy with birds and being in the nature and I had a very nice conversation with this little boy about the Egrets, the clean water of the river and the nice Otters. He is definitely a birdwatcher/nature lover! He did see the play full Otters through my binoculars, wow... that was good! for the Otter video.... https://youtu.be/8jexFrtB02U
Today 25th of October, had to work in the meadow and it was my lucky day..a harpy Eagle flew over, fortunately I did have my binoculars with me and he or she was singing !! No camera or phone with me ...! Auch!
Greetings from Terry
The bird list...:
Tinamou Cottage Boquete, ChiriquÃ, PA Oct 24, 2016 8:00 AM - 11:00 AM Protocol: Stationary Comments: Partly clouds, loads of migration birds came through, coffeefarm\horsestable 45 species (+2 other taxa) Black Vulture 1 Gray-cowled Wood-Rail 1 Snowy-bellied Hummingbird 2 Rufous-tailed Hummingbird 2 Lesson's Motmot 2 Red-crowned Woodpecker 3 Brown-throated Parakeet 6 Streak-headed Woodcreeper 2 Ochre-bellied Flycatcher 1 Sepia-capped Flycatcher 1 Paltry Tyrannulet 1 Yellow-olive Flycatcher 2 Eastern Wood-Pewee 3 Western/Eastern Wood-Pewee 1 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 1 Willow Flycatcher 1 Panama Flycatcher 1 Yellow-throated Vireo 2 Philadelphia Vireo 1 House Wren 1 Rufous-and-white Wren 1 Tropical Gnatcatcher 2 Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush 2 Clay-colored Thrush 2 White-throated Thrush 1 Golden-winged Warbler 2 Black-and-white Warbler 5 Tennessee Warbler 9 Mourning Warbler 1 Blackburnian Warbler 2 Chestnut-sided Warbler 4 Bay-breasted/Blackpoll Warbler 1 Rufous-capped Warbler 2 Wilson's Warbler 2 Heard more Blue-gray Tanager 2
flame colored Tanager 1 Palm Tanager 2 Bay-headed Tanager 3 Scarlet-thighed Dacnis 1 Yellow-faced Grassquit 2 Buff-throated Saltator 4 Streaked Saltator 2 Summer Tanager 2 Scarlet Tanager 1 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 1 Baltimore Oriole 2 Yellow-crowned Euphonia 1 Heard more Thick-billed Euphonia 3
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