Today I did see and heard the Costan Rican Pygmy- Owl 20 September 2019

Hello everybody, yesterday I was again checking out birds in the rice fields and this morning I was suddenly very motivated to check out the cloud forest birds.
So Spot (the birding dog) and me were up early and up we went...
The sky was blue, no clouds ...no wind...
I stepped out of the car and there I did see a nice black burnian Warbler...
After that a Wilson's Warbler..then a white throated Mountain Gem female and there I did hear the song of a Costa Rican Pygmy-Owl . I walked into dense forest and checked out the trees ... I did found him. First even higher in the tree. Fortunately he came down a bit, so I could see him even better. After checking him out with my Binoculars ..I thought oh maybe nice to take a picture. That was hard to get him sharp. As most of you know now...I am not the best picture taken person in the world. But as you see... I even took a video.
And here some pictures...

Pygmy Owls are totally cute!

Still the three wattled Bellbirds are all around and resplendent Quetzales  too. A lot of fruit (Bambito) is present.You can see around this female Quetzal the fruit...

It is a weird season with the fruit...also on our farm we have a lot of Guava beans hanging in the trees...normally the white faced Capuchin Monkeys  ( and Kinkajous) eat them all, mostly in June July and August. This year they showed up only to play on the roofs off the cottages...but not to eat the Guava beans.. there is so much food for them. I never did see so much "fat" beans on the trees. This afternoon they were eating the beans...but not for long.

I wonder how it will be next breeding season(Febr.- July) with the fruit for Quetzales and  three wattled Bellbirds....

Well I come back to that next year.

It was a good morning.. me and Spot had a good time! Such a good birding dog!

 Down below the list of this morning...more lists of the former days on E-bird
                                              Greetings  from Terry
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 private property 1900 m altitude, Chiriquí, PA
Sep 20, 2019 7:50 AM - 11:10 AM
Protocol: Traveling
0.5 kilometer(s)
Comments:     sun , last half hour clouds came in
56 species

Highland Tinamou  1     HO
Band-tailed Pigeon  5
White-tipped Dove  1
Chiriqui Quail-Dove  1
White-collared Swift  1
Lesser Violetear  4     4 seen heard more songs
White-throated Mountain-gem  2
Scintillant Hummingbird  2
Violet Sabrewing  5
Stripe-tailed Hummingbird  1
White-tailed Emerald  2
Black Vulture  2
Ornate Hawk-Eagle  1     soaring + song
Red-tailed Hawk  1 (immature)

Costa Rican Pygmy-Owl  1 
Resplendent Quetzal  2
Northern Emerald-Toucanet  1
Acorn Woodpecker  7
Hairy Woodpecker  2
Barred Parakeet  X     HO flew over
Silvery-fronted Tapaculo  1     HO
Spot-crowned Woodcreeper  1
Lineated Foliage-gleaner  1
Three-wattled Bellbird  5     heard more , all over.. 2 young males were chasing each other too far  for picture..still loads of food for them, unusual for this time of year
Barred Becard  1
Mountain Elaenia  6
Dark Pewee  2

Eastern Wood-Pewee  1
Yellowish Flycatcher  3
Rufous-browed Peppershrike  1     + song
Brown-capped Vireo  2
Ochraceous Wren  2
Gray-breasted Wood-Wren  3
Black-faced Solitaire  2     + song
Ruddy-capped Nightingale-Thrush  1     HO call
Swainson's Thrush  2     first ones this season
Mountain Thrush  2
White-throated Thrush  5     together in a berry tree, very high up for this Thrush (1900 m)
Golden-browed Chlorophonia  3
Elegant Euphonia  3
Yellow-bellied Siskin  6
Rosy Thrush-Tanager  1     HO
Common Chlorospingus  2
Chestnut-capped Brushfinch  4
Rufous-collared Sparrow  2
White-naped Brushfinch  1
golden crowned Warbler 2
Black-and-white Warbler  1
Flame-throated Warbler  2

Blackburnian Warbler  1
Black-cheeked Warbler  5
Wilson's Warbler  7
Slate-throated Redstart  2
Flame-colored Tanager  4
Silver-throated Tanager  3
Yellow-faced Grassquit  3
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and so... September began

Hello everybody, September did start already...oh my gosh time flies. I just had the idea that I said goodbye to the nice migrant birds black striped Warbler and black burnian Warbler and "boom" there they are back ... probably they are still migrating (transient) and going on to the south...

Last week I did go to see shore birds, of course migrants there...
I was hoping for Dickcissels, yes that would be a new bird for me... my husband Hans did say to me that they are not existing 😆 , because I did have "bad" luck with this bird to see him for years and years....
This time ( Wednesday 11th of September) I had a good feeling. Hans and I were surrounded in the late afternoon by rice fields in David and we did see huge groups of small yellowish birds... no way.. Dickcissels!!!

So exciting!

After 15 minutes I was checking out Wilson's Phalaropes...

did hear a big group Dickcissels flying over very close above my head... it looked like they did want to say... yes we do exist!!!!😉

I love the rice fields, specially the sounds of all the peeps, Sandpipers, Yellowlegs, Lapwings and so on... probably also I love that because my "Dutch blood". Of course the Netherlands does have a lot of water/ wetlands and beaches. When I am a little bit homesick... we love to go to that area.

This time of year it is a harder time to ID the shorebirds ...as a matter of fact...it is hard work.

All the different plumages...fortunately this ruddy Turnstone was still in his breeding plumage, easy ID

and then this molting little blue Heron...I can say it is a juvenile..he is almost there....

.....then suddenly in the scope 2 blue winged Teals, always a nice gift...

and a huge amount of black bellied whistling Ducks around us

We did stay in in that area until it was dark, very cool was that in the darkness you hear all the different frogs and do see night Herons flying by...also 1 Owl, but that was too fast for ID , very white...maybe a Barn Owl or Striped Owl... 

Well we have to go back ...soon!!! It was a fun late afternoon and night.

I did go also to that area two days before with Ann  and I will add down below the lists of these two fun outings.

Greetings from Terry

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David Rice fields, Chiriquí, PA
Sep 8, 2019 7:50 AM - 1:20 PM
Protocol: Traveling
2.0 kilometer(s)
Comments:     partly clouds
73 species (+7 other taxa)

Black-bellied Whistling-Duck  20     approx
Pale-vented Pigeon  1
Plain-breasted Ground Dove  1
Ruddy Ground Dove  20     approx
White-tipped Dove  1
Smooth-billed Ani  5
Smooth-billed/Groove-billed Ani  6
Green-crowned Brilliant  1     juv...chased away by scaly throated Hummingbird
Scaly-breasted Hummingbird  1
hummingbird sp.  2     chasing each other
Common Gallinule  1
Purple Gallinule  2
Black-necked Stilt  20     approx
Southern Lapwing  6
Wilson's Plover  1
Semipalmated Plover  3
Northern Jacana  12
Least Sandpiper  2
Pectoral Sandpiper  2   
Semipalmated Sandpiper  2
Semipalmated/Western Sandpiper  1
peep sp.  3
Wilson's Phalarope  7
Spotted Sandpiper  2
Solitary Sandpiper  2
Greater Yellowlegs  2
Lesser Yellowlegs  3
Greater/Lesser Yellowlegs  2
Wood Stork  6
Anhinga  1
Great Blue Heron  1
Great Egret  20     approx
Snowy Egret  3
Little Blue Heron  7
Cattle Egret  50     approx
Green Heron  7
White Ibis  12
Roseate Spoonbill  1
Black Vulture  X
Turkey Vulture  X
Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture  2
Common Black Hawk  2
Savanna Hawk  5
Roadside Hawk  4
Belted Kingfisher  1
Amazon Kingfisher  1
Red-crowned Woodpecker  2
Crested Caracara  2
Yellow-headed Caracara  1
Orange-chinned Parakeet  50     approx
Red-lored Parrot  4
Crimson-fronted Parakeet  20     approx
parrot sp.  6
Pale-breasted Spinetail  1
Common Tody-Flycatcher  3
Great Kiskadee  3
Social Flycatcher  2
Tropical Kingbird  5
Fork-tailed Flycatcher  6
Scrub Greenlet  1     HO
Northern Rough-winged Swallow  45     approx
Southern Rough-winged Swallow  1
Gray-breasted Martin  13
Barn Swallow  20     approx
House Wren  1
Tropical Mockingbird  2
Yellow-crowned Euphonia  1     heard song also
White-vented Euphonia  1
Eastern Meadowlark  4
Red-breasted Meadowlark  7
Orchard Oriole  1
Bronzed Cowbird  20
Great-tailed Grackle  100     approx
Yellow Warbler  1
warbler sp. (Parulidae sp.)  1     probably yellow Warbler 1th year... brownish, also in tail
Blue-gray Tanager  2
Palm Tanager  2
Blue-black Grassquit  X
Morelet's Seedeater  4
Bananaquit  2

Playa La Barqueta, Chiriquí, PA
Sep 8, 2019 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Protocol: Traveling
2.0 kilometer(s)
Comments:     cloudy
24 species

Ruddy Ground Dove  4
White-tipped Dove  1
Veraguan Mango  1
Rufous-tailed Hummingbird  1
Black-bellied Plover  2
Whimbrel  3
Ruddy Turnstone  2
Sanderling  6
Solitary Sandpiper  2
Willet  1
Laughing Gull  5
Royal Tern  6
Magnificent Frigatebird  5
Anhinga  1
Neotropic Cormorant  3
Brown Pelican  40     approx
Osprey  1
Roadside Hawk  1
Red-crowned Woodpecker  1
Yellow-headed Caracara  1
Tropical Kingbird  1
Tropical Mockingbird  2
Blue-gray Tanager  2
Yellow-bellied Seedeater  1

David Rice fields, Chiriquí, PA
Sep 11, 2019 4:30 PM - 7:20 PM
Protocol: Traveling
0.5 kilometer(s)
Comments:     2 spots , partly clouds, quiet weather.Did not count exact numbers this time...
55 species (+2 other taxa)

Black-bellied Whistling-Duck  100     approx
Blue-winged Teal  2
Pale-vented Pigeon  1
Plain-breasted Ground Dove  1
Ruddy Ground Dove  7
Common Gallinule  1
Purple Gallinule  2
Black-necked Stilt  25
Black-bellied Plover  2
Southern Lapwing  40     all over , at least 40
Wilson's Plover  1
Semipalmated Plover  3
Northern Jacana  12
Ruddy Turnstone  1
Least Sandpiper  30     approx
Western Sandpiper  1
peep sp.  3
Wilson's Phalarope  13   
Spotted Sandpiper  4
Solitary Sandpiper  1
Lesser Yellowlegs  4
Wood Stork  45
Neotropic Cormorant  1
Great Blue Heron  1
Great Egret  45     approx
Snowy Egret  2
Little Blue Heron  1
Cattle Egret  50     approx
Green Heron  2
Black-crowned/Yellow-crowned Night-Heron  5     flew by in the dark
White Ibis  15
Roseate Spoonbill  6
Turkey Vulture  2
Savanna Hawk  1
Roadside Hawk  1
Red-crowned Woodpecker  2
Crested Caracara  2
Yellow-headed Caracara  1
Orange-chinned Parakeet  25     approx in tree
Red-lored Parrot  2
Brown-throated Parakeet  30     approx
Common Tody-Flycatcher  1
Social Flycatcher  2
Tropical Kingbird  2
Fork-tailed Flycatcher  2
Northern Rough-winged Swallow  50     all over..approx
Bank Swallow  5
Barn Swallow  20     approx
House Wren  2
Tropical Mockingbird  1
Eastern Meadowlark  1
Red-breasted Meadowlark  1
Great-tailed Grackle  200     approx
Dickcissel  600     3 x big groups + flight calls
Blue-gray Tanager  2
Palm Tanager  2
Blue-black Grassquit  7
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checking out striped Owl

Hello everybody, we were visiting tonight our friends and we did see the striped Owl , very cool.
Next time I will not "zoom" in too much , I was just trying to get him closer...but it was already too dark

Greetings from Terry

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