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

http://coffeeadventures.net/tinamou.html

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