Well migration is almost done ... this morning only a couple of Eastern Wood Pewee's .. eating a lot of insects and still the Swainson's Thrushes are around..I expect maybe still tomorrow but then it will be over with their calls and songs around us.
Fingers crossed that the most of the migration birds that I did see, will make it and that a lot of them are already sitting on eggs. This morning sad picture on Flap Facebook site ( http://www.flap.org/ ) of two dead scarlet Tanagers, male and female...because of hitting a building window in Toronto Canada. I did see the last pair scarlet Tanagers on 19th of April... male and female here in the garden.. I hope they did make it!!
These two pictures were taken in front of our house.. you can see that the Wood Pewee's can have so much "faces". This eastern Wood Pewee was singing in the early morning last week, on both pictures the same bird!!! :
This year the eastern and western Wood Pewee's were singing a lot in April..I never did experienced that, always the calls, sometimes song... but this year ..so different!!!
Oh another very nice sighting was in an early misty morning (850 meters) .. huge groups of eastern Kingbirds flew by. It felt almost that I was in Holland 3 years ago, when I did see big migration of Pipits, also in the mist. They flew by very low, probably to catch some insects in flight. This one was taking a break:
Also about "our" birds... not too much Quetzales this year. Did speak in the fields in different area's with some farmers, they did notice also less songs and less Quetzal sightings.
In some areas that was full with three wattled Bell Birds in former years, no Bell Birds...
Because it was a warmer Summer..different weather , maybe the berries were faster ripe and in a short time there was a lot of food , but also very short time it was gone... falling off the trees or dried out.. that is what I do and did see. Also the Bell birds are migrating with the food , like Quetzales and other birds..so maybe that is it. I think this can be also that there are problems with nests...
Oh oh...what did happen here , look like Quetzal feathers....:
I am not so worried about the Flycatchers and other insect eating birds...more insects then ever !
Fortunately I did see already just fledged immatures like this streaked Flycatcher, there were 2 immatures and both adults were giving them food. This one was taken on the coast nearby David city.
More crested Oropendula's , more trees with their nests, this picture was taken on a late evening nearby our farm.
Now it is the time to hear all kind of Thrushes singing and the black faced Solitairs in the cloud forest, are nesting now. During a hike around the 1800 meters...this nest was .."in my face"
I took a quick picture and walked further and behind a tree on a distance I did see that the Solitair came and continue with breeding. They are nesting along open areas, trails in banks.
About nests... this cuty is a nest of a lesser violet Ear ( former name :green violet Ear )(Hummingbird)
And this one of a scintillant Hummingbird...what was she thinking!!! On a coffee farm in the picking season! I did ask the men over there if she did have baby's, but they did see the nest for the first time because I did point it out... :)
Up to the month of May!... sunny mornings... rain in the late afternoon, nice green, lush time. More nests, more songs...more mating (like this morning two Crimson backed Tanagers on our other farm) Down below 2 bird list of this morning...
Greetings Terry
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Tinamou Cottage Boquete, ChiriquĆ, PA Apr 27, 2017 6:45 AM - 7:05 AM Protocol: Stationary Comments: in front of house 39 species Little Tinamou 1 HO Gray-headed Chachalaca 8 Spotted Wood-Quail 1 HO Roadside Hawk 1 White-tipped Dove 1 Snowy-bellied Hummingbird 1 Rufous-tailed Hummingbird 3 Lesson's Motmot 2 Red-crowned Woodpecker 2 Streak-headed Woodcreeper 1 Yellow-bellied Elaenia 1 Mountain Elaenia 1 making nest Yellow-olive Flycatcher 1 Eastern Wood-Pewee 1 + call Bright-rumped Attila 1 HO in forest Lance-tailed Manakin 1 Yellow-green Vireo 3 chasing away snake House Wren 2 Rufous-breasted Wren 1 Rufous-and-white Wren 2 upset by snake Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush 2 Swainson's Thrush 2 Clay-colored Thrush 3 White-throated Thrush 2 Buff-rumped Warbler 1 HO Blue-gray Tanager 2 Bay-headed Tanager 2 Silver-throated Tanager 2 Scarlet-thighed Dacnis 1 Red-legged Honeycreeper 3 Rosy Thrush-Tanager 1 HO Buff-throated Saltator 2 Streaked Saltator 1 Black-striped Sparrow 1 Rufous-collared Sparrow 1 HO White-naped Brushfinch 2 White-winged Tanager 2 Red-crowned Ant-Tanager 1 HO song in forest Thick-billed Euphonia 2
finca Potoo, ChiriquĆ, PA Apr 27, 2017 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM Protocol: Traveling 0.6 kilometer(s) Comments: sun 46 species Little Tinamou 1 HO Turkey Vulture 2 Scaled Pigeon 1 + song White-tipped Dove 1 Squirrel Cuckoo 1 White-collared Swift 5 Stripe-throated Hermit 1 Snowy-bellied Hummingbird 2 Rufous-tailed Hummingbird 1 Lesson's Motmot 1 Red-crowned Woodpecker 2 Lineated Woodpecker 1 Blue-headed Parrot 1 Brown-throated Parakeet 6 Cocoa Woodcreeper 2 + song and call Yellow-bellied Elaenia 1 Mountain Elaenia 1 carrying food Common Tody-Flycatcher 1 Eye-ringed Flatbill 1 + call Eastern Wood-Pewee 5 Bright-rumped Attila 1 Lance-tailed Manakin 1 Lesser Greenlet 2 Yellow-green Vireo 3 House Wren 2 Isthmian Wren 1 + song Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush 3 heard 2 seen 1 Swainson's Thrush 2 + call Clay-colored Thrush 3 White-throated Thrush 2 Rufous-capped Warbler 2 Crimson-backed Tanager 2 copulation Blue-gray Tanager 2 Bay-headed Tanager 2 Silver-throated Tanager 2 Yellow-faced Grassquit 2 Rosy Thrush-Tanager 1 HO Buff-throated Saltator 1 Streaked Saltator 2 + song and call Black-striped Sparrow 1 Rufous-collared Sparrow 1 HO White-naped Brushfinch 2 Flame-colored Tanager 2 White-winged Tanager 2 Thick-billed Euphonia 2 Lesser Goldfinch 1
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