where is October 2018?

Hello all, where IS October 2018??, in 2 days it will be November...time flies!👀
What did we do in October...well painting walls, fix things, make things ready for high season.
I did go out birdwatching, left home early..and I mean early like 6 am...so I could be home around 9am...mostly somewhat later. October is really one of my favorite months... oh well I did tell you that two posts ago...
Of course this month is high season migration of the birds, I did mention that in former posts.So before rain or after, the sound of the migrant birds sounds a lot of times the same as in Holland in the Autumn/Winter...
                                                 
                                          one of the migrants: rose breasted Grosbeak:

                                   Also a lot of berries on the trees, blackberries and Acorns :

clay colored Thrush:

... such a contradictory, weird feeling(still have that after living in Panama now for 20 years), because I do feel/smell/hear also that the weather is going to change into our "verano" here in Panama..(Summer or dry season). Frogs are starting their songs, coffee berries are getting red, Hummingbirds are starting to sing,"our" hawks like the roadside Hawks, short tailed Hawks, black Hawk Eagles are starting to defend their areas and are pretty noisy.
Blue crowned Motmots do have long tails again and look beautiful..here one in the cloudy early morning:

Also in the early morning I took the picture of these Vultures yesterday, they were still wet from the rain what did fall in the night and as soon the sun comes out, they spread the wings to dry...

When the rain shower starts and it will be a short shower, birds stay silent, sitting in trees and waiting.

When it will be a long shower, they start to move around and try to find food, that is mostly a sign that the shower will be a longer one. 

This yellow throated Toucan knew it was a short one...and it was..

Although there are a lot of berries  and insects for the birds here on the farm and surroundings, I love to put in the morning some bananas and papaya  for them. 

Today I was painting on the balcony and I took the feeder away. In the afternoon I was drinking coffee with Hans and we hear a call of a thick billed Euphonia very close by, repeating repeating...we were sitting on the table inside the house and there he was... sitting in front of our window...

He was clearly asking for his fruit, that I forgot to put back!

I went outside, put the feeder back on the balcony and yes he did follow me and ate his banana...

Birds do speak when you are listening!

😉

Greetings from Terry

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For more lists, also for other areas that I did visit... check out ebird.org

Tinamou Cottage Boquete, Chiriquí, PA
Oct 28, 2018 4:50 PM - 5:30 PM
Protocol: Historical
Comments:     clouds around horse stable(coffee farm meadow)
36 species

Squirrel Cuckoo  1
Snowy-bellied Hummingbird  1
Rufous-tailed Hummingbird  X
Lesson's Motmot  1
Acorn Woodpecker  2
Golden-olive Woodpecker  1
Yellow-headed Caracara  1
Brown-throated Parakeet  X
Olivaceous Woodcreeper  2     + calls
Streak-headed Woodcreeper  1
Yellow-bellied Elaenia  1
Mountain Elaenia  1
Mistletoe Tyrannulet  1     HO
Pale-eyed Pygmy-Tyrant  1
Common Tody-Flycatcher  1
Western Wood-Pewee  2     both with call
Blue-and-white Swallow  X
House Wren  1
Rufous-breasted Wren  X     HO
Tropical Gnatcatcher  2
Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush  1
Clay-colored Thrush  2
Thick-billed Euphonia  X     HO
Lesser Goldfinch  1
Rosy Thrush-Tanager  1     + song
Black-striped Sparrow  1
White-naped Brushfinch  2
Tennessee Warbler  2
American Redstart  1
Chestnut-sided Warbler  1
Flame-colored Tanager  1
Bay-headed Tanager  2
Silver-throated Tanager  X
Red-legged Honeycreeper  X
Buff-throated Saltator  2
Streaked Saltator  1

Tinamou Cottage Boquete, Chiriquí, PA
Oct 27, 2018 8:45 AM - 9:45 AM
Protocol: Traveling
0.1 kilometer(s)
Comments:     around stable sunny
53 species

Little Tinamou  1     HO
Gray-headed Chachalaca  X
White-tipped Dove  1
Squirrel Cuckoo  2
Stripe-throated Hermit  1
Magenta-throated Woodstar  1
Snowy-bellied Hummingbird  1
Rufous-tailed Hummingbird  X
Turkey Vulture  2
Short-tailed Hawk  1     high up in sky  + calls/song
Lesson's Motmot  1
Red-crowned Woodpecker  2
Lineated Woodpecker  1
Brown-throated Parakeet  X
Streak-headed Woodcreeper  1
Yellow-bellied Elaenia  2
Ochre-bellied Flycatcher  2
Sepia-capped Flycatcher  1
Yellow-olive Flycatcher  1
Great Kiskadee  1
Social Flycatcher  2
Streaked Flycatcher  1     not often on our farm
Tropical Kingbird  1     HO
Lance-tailed Manakin  2     heard more calls
Rufous-browed Peppershrike  1     + song
House Wren  1
Rufous-breasted Wren  2
Rufous-and-white Wren  2
Isthmian Wren  1     HO
Tropical Gnatcatcher  2
Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush  1
Yellow-crowned Euphonia  2
Lesser Goldfinch  2
Black-striped Sparrow  1
Baltimore Oriole  1
Golden-winged Warbler  1
Black-and-white Warbler  1
Tennessee Warbler  5
American Redstart  1
Rufous-capped Warbler  2
Wilson's Warbler  1
Summer Tanager  1
Flame-colored Tanager  1
Red-crowned Ant-Tanager  2
Rose-breasted Grosbeak  1
Blue-gray Tanager  2
Bay-headed Tanager  6
Silver-throated Tanager  1
Scarlet-thighed Dacnis  2
Red-legged Honeycreeper  3
Yellow-faced Grassquit  2
Buff-throated Saltator  3
Streaked Saltator  1

Tinamou Cottage Boquete, Chiriquí, PA
Oct 25, 2018 10:55 AM
Protocol: Incidental
1 species

Magenta-throated Woodstar  1

Hawk migration 14 October 2018

                                            No ID yet  update 16 October 2018.. a couple of birders did say broad winged Hawk but I was not convinced because of the darkness in wings and belly..I did ask a specialist who is watching Hawks already for 19 years... his answer... I am convinced now 😊

"Hello Hans and Terry,

Wow, I'm jealous, I haven't seen a flight like that since I went to Veracruz, MX.  The bird you circled is a broad-winged hawk.  Broadwings come in  two morphs a light morph which  is the majority of the population and a much rarer dark morph.  At Veracruz, less than 0.1% of the broadwings are the dark morph.  You can see in the picture that the size and shape of the dark morph is the same as the light morph broadwings around.  The characteristics of the dark morph are a dark belly and underwing coverts.

Let me know if you have any questions,

David"

David R. Barber

Research Biologist

Hawk Mountain Sanctuary

Today a huge Hawk migration. I think I did see the biggest in my 20 years of living in Panama. The sky was full in Bocas del Toro along the cost (Panama)...wow!

                                       

Mostly broad winged Hawks, Swainson's Hawks and Mississippi Kite, Turkey Vultures. Also loads of groups of Swallows, what I did see for sure... northern rough winged Swallows and Bank Swallows and a few southern rough winged Swallows...but also Swallows that I could not see very well for a proper ID

Greetings from Terry

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wettest month is October....

Hello everybody, yes the wettest month is October... loads of people complain...not me...
I love it and enjoy it...why Terry why!?
Well there is always a dry spot..a dry moment to go out and see birds (migration is in full swing!), enjoy the fresh air, get wet and see the plants grow, the streams are full, the sound of the streams are loud and see the clouds come in and out and before rain starts, the birds are very active, that is fun too. And wearing a coat or my new poncho from Ecuador! It's probably my Dutch blood...

Of course it is low season now, we did good for September/October but since this week it is quiet for a few weeks...so dentist hairdresser  extra cleaning in the house and maintaining and some nice outings and hikes in the nature around us. Did go last Tuesday (9th of October) with a birding friend to the low lands, see some shore birds and ate a nice fish. A few days before and yesterday I did that with my husband.

                                                 

The picture above you see a Woodstork, (l) snowy Egret, (center) roseated Spoonbill, (R) a great Egret.
Last Tuesday we did see a nest of a Savanna Hawk, the immatures were still very tiny. Both parents were pretty busy with them.
And I thought the picture with all white birds is pretty cool (great and Cattle Egrets and Woodstorks). And yesterday before the rain also in David (rice fields) two pearl Kites, stepped out of the car and took this picture.
Still find it such a great thing that in less then one hour, we are from the cloud forest into the wetlands...
Did visit a couple of times the last weeks other areas outside our farm ... good birds!
I am not a fabulous picture taking person but this immature ornate Hawk Eagle turned out to be nice:

Who is watching who... :)
And this early morning I did go high up into the clouds and mist and had 2,5 "kind of dry" hours. It was hard to see the birds but in the forest you can spot them, more contrast. This paltry Tyrannulet  "oh no" it has now a different name "mistletoe Tyrannulet"...anyway it gives an idea how misty it was...                             

                                            They are so cute and so beautiful in the mist!!

On the farm it is busy, when I am outside it is with my binoculars, my ears are open all the time....very "not" relaxing...but I cannot resist to listen all the time...because of the sounds of the migrant birds. Yesterday was the first time that there was a small group of them passing by. It is starting slow comparing with last  year. Wilson's Warblers the most spotted.

Then American Redstarts and black and white Warblers. Probably it will come next week... "Our birds" are pretty active and I am pleased that the stripe throated Wren and Acorn Woodpeckers decided to be birds on our farm!
On our other farm I did spot and heard a black faced Antthrush, a new bird on that farm( Finca Potoo)

I did not tell about our trip to Quito https://terryboquetebirdstory.blogspot.com/2018/09/black-tailed-trainbearer-hummingbird-in.html
We did visit mostly the city but of course we did see birds, for me mostly new ones..although the rufous collared Sparrows...they are everywhere there!!! It was great to be on a higher elevation and yes this bird is stunning  the Vermillion Flycatcher

They are common there, but for me it was really super to watch him! And on an altitude of 4150 m you will see this, the stout billed Cinclodes
And a plumbeous Sierra Finch, for me it was great to see this one....
Well I think it will be not the last time that we will visit Ecuador, somebody ask me, you go and live there? No Panama is really in our hearts, but so once in a while a trip to another country is always nice.
So this was my story for now... greetings from Terry
(picture totally above..Barn Swallows migrating)
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