Juvenile Three Wattled Bellbirds

Took this video this morning....

This year was a great year for the three wattled Bellbirds. Loads of food for them and still.... In a few weeks they will go back to the low lands, it will be quiet in the cloud forest in Boquete Panama...we will miss them...they will be back in February ...

We still did see a very noisy resplendent Quetzal and even last week there was an observation of a nest with immature. That is late , but also for them ...there is still a lot of food available.

The clay colored Thrushes and yellow green Vireo's did stop singing but still a lot of other birds have nests and immatures...

Seedeaters, Wrens, Grassquits... they are all still very active, still nest building.

For the Euphonia's it is getting now at the end of the season...finally after sometimes even 3 nests ("our" thick billed Euphonia couple did use  3 times the same nest, the 2 immatures flew out yesterday)

Greetings from Terry

http://coffeeadventures.net/tinamou.html

it's that time of the year...singing birds...baby birds... nests..

And so yes it's a Spring feeling here in Boquete, Panama.... although there are a lot of Acorns falling on the ground, fruit on the trees...Autumn? Insects and small caterpillars hanging on threats from the trees.... Spring? Well never mind... it is the wet season...in the morning sunny and in the afternoon a shower... and singing fighting busy birds...there is the spring feeling again... :)

Where ever you are standing, there is something happening... a nest with eggs, a nest with young birds, a bird of prey trying to reach the nest and eat/ steal the eggs or chicks, birds attacking each other or making love, baby birds asking for food... I love this time of year.

For me it is also the time that I have to clean windows...a lot! because of birds are attacking their image in the windows. The clay colored Thrushes are  doing that the most, but since a week also two rufous capped Warblers... the clay colored Thrushes leave clay/dirt on the window...they honor their name.

                                          rufous capped Warbler is challenging our dog Max

                                          They are pretty agressive because down below
                                           our balcony they have a nest.

Every year in this time when the thunder and rain starts...that is apparently the sign for the baby birds to fledge...that is also the sign for the yellow headed Caracara, road side Hawk..even laughing Falcon and black chested Jays to come out and see if there is something to get....as you see on the video above... the birds are not happy with that.

Hope that these baby birds did make it with all those dangers....
Like this cute purple Gallinule immature:

Or what do you think of this just fledged prong billed Barbet yesterday in the cloud forest:

the juvenile green breasted Mango had some competition and was chased away often but she was pretty active ..so she will make it, took this picture 8th of June 2018, it was on the beach of la Barqueta:

I leave it by this post...next time another story...
Greetings from Terry
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Addition 21th of June 2018:

Tinamou Cottage Boquete, Chiriquí, PA
Jun 21, 2018 6:45 AM - 9:05 AM
Protocol: Historical
9.0 ha
Comments:     sun
62 species

Little Tinamou  1     HO = heard only
Gray-headed Chachalaca  2
Spotted Wood-Quail  1     HO
Black Vulture  1
Roadside Hawk  1
Gray-cowled Wood-Rail  1
Ruddy Quail-Dove  1     also heard song, very active last few days
White-tipped Dove  1
Squirrel Cuckoo  2     + song and call
Stripe-throated Hermit  1
Garden Emerald  1
Violet Sabrewing  1
Snowy-bellied Hummingbird  1
Rufous-tailed Hummingbird  3
Lesson's Motmot  3
Red-crowned Woodpecker  2
Golden-olive Woodpecker  1     + song
Lineated Woodpecker  1
Yellow-headed Caracara  1
Brown-throated Parakeet  4
Cocoa Woodcreeper  1     + songs
Streak-headed Woodcreeper  1
Yellow-bellied Elaenia  2
Mountain Elaenia  2
Paltry Tyrannulet  1
Common Tody-Flycatcher  1     HO
Yellow-olive Flycatcher  3
Boat-billed Flycatcher  3
Piratic Flycatcher  1     HO
Tropical Kingbird  2
Lance-tailed Manakin  2     heard more
Yellow-green Vireo  3
House Wren  1
Rufous-breasted Wren  4
Rufous-and-white Wren  3
Isthmian Wren  1     HO
Tropical Gnatcatcher  1
Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush  3
Clay-colored Thrush  7     approx
White-throated Thrush  4
Rosy Thrush-Tanager  3
Rufous-capped Warbler  2
Gray-headed Tanager  2
Blue-gray Tanager  3
Palm Tanager  1
Bay-headed Tanager  2
Silver-throated Tanager  3
Scarlet-thighed Dacnis  2
Red-legged Honeycreeper  5
Yellow-bellied Seedeater  1
Buff-throated Saltator  2
Streaked Saltator  3
Black-striped Sparrow  2
Orange-billed Sparrow  2     + song
White-naped Brushfinch  2
Flame-colored Tanager  2
White-winged Tanager  2
Red-crowned Ant-Tanager  3     + song and calls
Great-tailed Grackle  2
Thick-billed Euphonia  2
Elegant Euphonia  3
Lesser Goldfinch  3