Hello everybody , yes it is a while ago...before the end of this weird year, I will post a story. But for now:
Dutch radio program "early birds " (vroege vogels) this coming Sunday 27th of December 2020, I (Terry) talk about Hummingbirds ... unfortunately only in Dutch... but this video of the leafcutter ants on our farm , we don't need any translation :)
Update 29th of December 2020... here the link with my story about Hummingbirds and sustainable Coffeefarms, the follow up is done by Arjan Dwarshuis, world record holder bird spotting (6852 birds in one year...40 countries)
26th of October 2020this morning I did go to one of my favorite areas in Boquete, nearby our farm. Open, brushes, meadows, trees, flowers, birds, cows clouds came in. Together with my bird doggie Spot.
Spot is 11 years now, he is so alive but there is a tumor in his inner thigh .. what is growing. He is still okay... I go out with him a lot..."kind" of fortunately, now with Covid ... I have even more time now... double feeling.
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19th of October 2020 , 5.50pm
1900m altitude, a late afternoon in the Boquete cloud forest... this nice male rose breasted Grosbeak. Did he arrive or he has to fly on... for more days...weeks?
Greetings from Terry
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October is bird migration time... my days are too short, every morning I am awake at 5.45ish , 6am it is getting light and have my breakfast on the balcony. Calls of migration birds...I love it and also "our" birds are pretty active because of all the travelers around them... they are defending their area.
I try to take pictures, but because I am so busy with ID's, I am most of the time too late to get a good picture. This Swainson's Thrush was probably so tired after a night flying, that I finally got a nice picture of this nice bird. My lists of the birds are on E-bird.
I did got some e mails with questions...how everything is going... looking to Covid virus situation. Well we are okay, stay in our bubble and doing jobs in the farm and around the cottages and house. Panama is opening a bit, but they are careful, what is for many people hard ...but in this country health of the people is number 1... which is a good thing. So plenty of time to watch birds and that is a good way to relax .
Hope that all of my blog readers stay healthy and safe! And here is my "winner picture"!
Good morning ...this 26th of September 2020, and yes there she was.... the female Summer Tanager, eating like crazy .. while I was eaten by mosquitos I took this video. I did see 3 Summer Tanagers all females this morning and more migrants... a nice male Canada Warbler, black and white Warblers, American Restarts, blackburnian Warblers, northern Waterthrush, western/eastern Wood Pewees and yesterday by the way the first Tennessee Warbler and a Louisiana Waterthrush, oh yes the video is on this blog of him/her. The highlight for me this morning were 2 eastern Wood Pewees fighting for their territory .. after that one started to sing...very sweet song...I did try to tape it , but it was short... hope it is on the tape...beautiful!
Hello everybody, yes before we have the weekend in quarantaine I did go to the cloud forest to check out the birds there. I did do a lot of birdwatching this week, checking out what happens with the migrants. Two days ago it was really nice on our farm, a lot of migrants... the winners were blackburnian Warblers. Today I did see only one male and next to that a black and white Warbler and three western/eastern Wood Pewees and northern Waterthrushand more of "our" birds. I was happy this week to see migrant Warblers, so much bad news about migrant birds in the news... I will keep my eyes and ears open.
Today it was beautiful sunny weather in the morning and pretty "cold" the first hour, I started later, because birds are always later active higher up in the mountains. Started around 8.30am.
In the beginning of the trail there were two man, one police and one from the "Miambiente" (environment ministry) I did read two days ago in the newspaper that the national parks get more protection, by putting more police to guard..to avoid that people are going to do hunting, cutting trees away...that kind of things. So we did talk and they were both my kind of man, totally in the nature..enthusiastic and also frustrated by what they experience. But I said to them, you can do something about it for real... we did talk about bird /nature protection, growing coffee on high altitudes(a hype now...also because of the climate change and money). And illegal dumping chemicals into rivers, what was in the news yesterday in an area nearby Cerro Punta. They told me that they were going into the area to check what is happening... they did have a tip that there was illegal cutting of trees in Parque La Amistad, so they were on a mission and they are coming back in 2,5 days. Later I was on the trail and they passed me... with another man from Miambiente and 5 Policeman.
My morning was already a success after this good conversation!!! I must say that Panama is really busy to protect the areas, it always can better of course, always there are "bad people". Anyway, as usual I did not walk a lot, did watch for half an hour two green fronted Lancebill Hummingbirds going with the large bills into flowers.
It was a good morning!
Greetings from Terry
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The bird list of today..for more bird lists.. ebird.org
Sendero Culebra, Chiriquí, PA
Sep 18, 2020 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM
Protocol: Traveling
1.0 kilometer(s)
33 species (+2 other taxa)
Hello everyone, finally another post .. despite the virus and quarantine I am quite busy with everything. Our life looks different, we suddenly have more time to maintain our own home and garden. I often sit on the terrace and watch the birds or walk in the farm here. Once a week I go to another quiet "no people" area where I enjoy the birds for a while. Shopping as little as possible and very early in the morning. This is how we pass the time ...
Last Tuesday (8 Sept 2020) I received a message from Rosie who takes care of birds and has an official permit from "Miambiente", Ministry of Environment. People from the ministry had brought a Quetzal (female) to her that Friday (Sept. 4). She had been dumped in the Volcan area. People had probably taken her out of the nest and cut her wings. Probably dumped ... now my interpretation ... because it is a protected bird species and is punishable anyway !!!!! what they did ... whether it turned out to be a female and well they are of course less beautiful than the male ... in any case ... a very wrong situation.
Rosie has so far rescued Toucans and parrots and Howler Monkeys ... and returned many to nature. But never a Quetzal of course. Quetzales need special food
... they mainly eat wild avocados and other fruits of the Laurel family. For the first time in ages, I went to visit to check the situation. Keeping our distance and wearing a mask, we looked at a bird that was reasonably well feathered, she could fly and she ate by herself ... but in a cage at 600 m altitude in the heat,
she would not last long ... release as soon as possible! luckily we agreed there. I had an idea where there was fruit and went to investigate. Found a place. Unfortunately was the release not the next day, because people from "Miambiente" had to come along and also give permission.(which is super good!) That permission was there. And this morning (Thursday) the time had come. In the morning that day before, I also went to have a look and on both days I did see the fruit and also many birds. .. also orange bellied Trogons ... that also did give me a good feeling. The site is at 1900 m altitude. Rosie and I (both a bit nervous) and Hans had to walk a bit to get to the spot, as quickly as possible. It is a protected forest of friends and we always call it the silent forest. No people, just birds and trees and plants. The Quetzal was getting livelier, it was really moving to see ... yes this was her place! Immediately after the release
she looked for a safe place and 2 times she flew further away
and at the last place she started to polish her feathers. She had eaten well that morning, so she could let everything come to her just as well. Near her there was an orange bellied Trogon and lots of Mountain Thrushes ... so fruit!
We watched for about 15 minutes and yes fingers crossed ... She sat on the branch like a female Quetzal .. quietly looking around brushing feathers ... who knows what she will do, it will be fine ... hope that the wings will grow fast!
Greetings from Terry (hope you do enjoy the videos... I had to zoom in a bit sometimes, but you will get the impression)
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Hola a todos, por fin otro post .. a pesar del virus y la cuarentena estoy bastante ocupado con todo. Nuestra vida se ve diferente, de repente tenemos más tiempo para mantener nuestro propio hogar y jardín. A menudo me siento en la terraza y observo los pájaros o camino por finca aqui. Una vez a la semana voy a otra zona tranquila "sin gente" donde disfruto de las aves durante un rato. Compras lo menos posible y muy temprano en la mañana. Así pasamos el tiempo ...
El Martes pasado (8 de Septiembre de 2020) recibí un mensaje de una señora que cuida de aves y tiene un permiso oficial de "Miambiente", Ministerio de Medio Ambiente. La gente del ministerio le había traído un Quetzal (mujer) ese viernes (4 de septiembre). La habían arrojado al área de Volcan. Probablemente la gente la había sacado del nido y le había cortado las alas. Probablemente tirado ... ahora mi interpretación ... porque es una especie de ave protegida y es punible de todos modos !!!!! lo que hicieron ... si resultó ser una mujer y bueno, por supuesto, son menos hermosos que el hombre ... en cualquier caso ... una situación muy equivocada.
Rosie hasta ahora ha rescatado Tucanes, Loros y Monos ... y ha devuelto a muchos a la naturaleza. Pero nunca un Quetzal por supuesto. Los Quetzales necesitan alimentos especiales ... principalmente comen aguacates silvestres y otras frutas de la familia Laurel. Por primera vez en mucho tiempo, fui de visita para comprobar la situación. Manteniendo nuestra distancia y con una máscara, miramos a un pájaro que tenía bastante plumas, podía volar y comía sola ... pero en una jaula a 600 m de altitud en el calor, no duraría mucho ... suelte lo antes posible! afortunadamente acordamos allí. Tenía una idea de dónde había fruta y fui a investigar. Encontré un lugar. Lamentablemente la liberación no fue al día siguiente, porque la gente de "Miambiente" tuvo que venir y también dar permiso.(Muy bien!) Ese permiso estaba ahí. Y esta mañana (Jueves) había llegado el momento. En la mañana del día anterior, también fui a ver y en los dos días vi la fruta y también muchos pájaros. .. también Trogons ... eso también me dio una buena sensación. El sitio está a 1900 m de altitud. Rosie y yo (ambos un poco nerviosos) y Hans tuvimos que caminar un poco para llegar al lugar lo más rápido posible. Es un bosque protegido de amigos y siempre lo llamamos el bosque silencioso. No hay gente, solo pájaros, árboles y plantas. El Quetzal se estaba volviendo más animado, era realmente conmovedor verlo ... ¡sí, este era su lugar! Inmediatamente después de la liberación buscó un lugar seguro y 2 veces voló más lejos y en el último lugar comenzó a pulir sus plumas. Había comido bien esa mañana, así que podía dejar que todo le viniera bien. Cerca de ella había un trogon de vientre naranja y muchos zorzales ... ¡qué fruta!
Estuvimos mirando durante unos 15 minutos y sí, cruzaron los dedos ... Se sentó en la rama como una hembra de Quetzal ... mirando tranquilamente a su alrededor cepillándose las plumas ... quién sabe qué hará, estará bien ... :)
Saludos de Terry (espero que disfrutes el video ... Tuve que acercarme un poco a veces, pero tendrás la impresión)
this morning I did go birdwatching on our other farm(finca Potoo)...
when I was on my way home, I did notice a lot of birds along the road... so 35 minutes later I did go finally in my car and did go home... Army Ants and birds..great combination... I love it!
Greetings from Terry
http://coffeeadventures.net/tinamou.html My lists of today...
Finca Potoo, Chiriquí, PA
Jun 21, 2020 7:35 AM - 10:35 AM
24.0 ha
Checklist Comments: first hour sun, then clouds came in...dry but cloudy, forest and shrub
78 species
Little Tinamou X HO(heard only)
Gray-headed Chachalaca 7
Spotted Wood-Quail X HO
Scaled Pigeon 2 1 seen 1 heard, answering each other
Ruddy Ground Dove 1
Ruddy Quail-Dove 2 1 seen 1 heard
White-tipped Dove 3
Squirrel Cuckoo 1
Common Pauraque 1
Stripe-throated Hermit 2 heard more ...two leks
Violet Sabrewing 1
Snowy-bellied Hummingbird 2
Rufous-tailed Hummingbird 2
Black Vulture 4
Roadside Hawk 2
Gartered Trogon 1
Lesson's Motmot 2
Red-crowned Woodpecker 1
Lineated Woodpecker 1
Yellow-headed Caracara 1
Brown-throated Parakeet 27 1 group of 8, 1 group of 19
Olivaceous Woodcreeper 1
Cocoa Woodcreeper 1
Streak-headed Woodcreeper 3
Lance-tailed Manakin X HO songs and calls
White-winged Becard 2 1 singing bird
White-throated Spadebill 1
Slate-headed Tody-Flycatcher 1
Common Tody-Flycatcher 2
Yellow-olive Flycatcher 1
Yellow-margined Flycatcher 1
Yellow Tyrannulet 2 pair?
Yellow-bellied Elaenia 1 HO song
Lesser Elaenia 1
Mistletoe Tyrannulet 1
Bright-rumped Attila 1 HO song
Dusky-capped Flycatcher 1
Boat-billed Flycatcher 2
Social Flycatcher 2
Tropical Kingbird 1
Rufous-browed Peppershrike 2
Lesser Greenlet 4 2 pairs 1 bird singing
Yellow-green Vireo 2 both singing
Black-chested Jay 7
Long-billed Gnatwren 1
Tropical Gnatcatcher 2
Scaly-breasted Wren 1 HO
House Wren 4
Rufous-and-white Wren 2
Isthmian Wren 1 HO
Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush 3 heard more singing birds
White-throated Thrush 2
Clay-colored Thrush 3
Yellow-crowned Euphonia 1
Thick-billed Euphonia 2
Elegant Euphonia 2
Rosy Thrush-Tanager 2 heard more singing birds
Black-striped Sparrow 2 pair?
Orange-billed Sparrow 1
Rufous-collared Sparrow 1
White-naped Brushfinch 2
Bronzed Cowbird 1
Tropical Parula 1
Rufous-capped Warbler 2
Buff-rumped Warbler 1
White-winged Tanager 2
Red-crowned Ant-Tanager 3 heard more
Gray-headed Tanager 2
Scarlet-rumped Tanager (Cherrie's) 1
Crimson-backed Tanager 3
Blue-gray Tanager 2
Scarlet-thighed Dacnis 1
Blue-black Grassquit 5
Variable Seedeater 3
Yellow-bellied Seedeater 1
Yellow-faced Grassquit 2
Buff-throated Saltator 2
Streaked Saltator 3
carretera la Estrella, Chiriquí, PA
Jun 21, 2020 10:40 AM - 11:15 AM
Protocol: Stationary
Checklist Comments: cloudy... Ant Swarm
35 species
Little Tinamou X HO
White-tipped Dove 1
Snowy-bellied Hummingbird 1
Rufous-tailed Hummingbird 2
Short-tailed Hawk 1 attacking a group of birds (Ant swarm) he missed..was very exciting
Lesson's Motmot 1
Red-crowned Woodpecker 1
Streak-headed Woodcreeper 1
Lance-tailed Manakin 1
Common Tody-Flycatcher 1
Great Kiskadee 1
Boat-billed Flycatcher 2
Social Flycatcher 3
Tropical Kingbird 2
House Wren 1
Isthmian Wren 1
Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush X
White-throated Thrush X
Clay-colored Thrush X
Black-striped Sparrow 2
Yellow-thighed Brushfinch 2
Tropical Parula 1
Rufous-capped Warbler 2
Buff-rumped Warbler 1
Red-crowned Ant-Tanager 3
Gray-headed Tanager 1
White-lined Tanager 1
Scarlet-rumped Tanager (Cherrie's) X
Crimson-backed Tanager X
Bay-headed Tanager 3
Red-legged Honeycreeper 2
Variable Seedeater 1
Yellow-faced Grassquit 2
Buff-throated Saltator X
Streaked Saltator 2
Hello everybody, good birding times today... suddenly I did see a tropical screech Owl perching...I heard some birds calling, but to be fairly honest I thought that is was because of my dogs...but they were behind me, so then always take the calling serious, so I was checking the forest and yes there he/she was... the "tropical screech Owl"
I must say..I am also proud on this picture that I took from 2 very cute, hungry... just perched red legged Honeycreepers..
17th of June 2020.. Hans and I did go today for the first time since more than 3 months to the ranger station of the national park volcan Baru ..sendero los Quetzales. Of course the park is still closed, so we did sit on the little bench and did drink coffee. Did see some birds and did enjoy the silence and sun. Then after 20 minutes there was a car and a woman stepped out...so we stepped in the car and drove away. We were not in the mood to sit there and wear mouth protection... So we passed the Caldera river and did watch this cute just fledged black Phoebe, we felt better again and did go to our home on the farm where we did drink coffee ...again.
Difficult times...
Stay safe
Greetings from Terry http://coffeeadventures.net/tinamou.html
Hello everybody, I simply love bright rumped Attila, their songs , their behaviour.Normally you don't see them often on the ground in the open...so this morning I was happy that I could take this video in our forest.
Saturday 9th of May 2020... Global big day... my dogs were with me the whole day, they are such a patient dogs! Today it was all about the amount of different species of birds... on our farm I counted 90 species of different birds...in Panama a lot of birdwatchers counted in total 627 species. A good score because of the lock down in Panama and Saturday was everybody in quarantine. Also a lot of birdwatchers had to count from their balcony in for example Panama city...but still they did it and next year it will be huge! Hope that a lot of newcomers will participate next year!!!
The weather was great, partly clouds ..not too warm, perfect!!!
Hans and I did start midnight 00.00 am the common Potoos were singing , the rufous Nightjar and tropical screech Owl also..those were my first birds. Of course downloading on E-bird and then to bed. At 5.45 am I was awake...breakfast on the balcony and listening to the birds and making a list. It's for E-bird okay to add birds on the list also when you hear them.
The whole day I was busy with my lists, pictures and bird watching in different areas on the farm(I am SO lucky) ..it was a great day! And every time when I was coming home, there was lunch, dinner and coffee ....Hans love to see me enjoying this day and he is taking care of me, so sweet!!! and relaxing.
The highlights bird wise (of course everything :) ) a collared forest Falcon adult flying by in the forest followed by a lot of angry birds. No pictures..it happened too fast!
A very cute just fledged immature of a yellow green Vireo.
I did try to take pictures...down below some best ones: A yellow olive Flycatcher:
A red eyed Vireo:
A white throated Thrush:
Down below my lists of the global big day. Stay healthy and safe!!! Greetings from Terry http://coffeeadventures.net/tinamou.html (the colors around my text are weird, I cannot fix it 👀)
Tinamou Cottage Boquete, Chiriquí, PA
May 9, 2020 12:00 AM - 12:01 AM
Protocol: Stationary
3 species
Rufous Nightjar 1
Common Potoo 2 two singing birds...answering each other. same spots as yesterday and day before
Tropical Screech-Owl 1
Tinamou Cottage Boquete, Chiriquí, PA
May 9, 2020 12:02 AM - 12:03 AM
Protocol: Stationary
1 species
Little Tinamou 1
Tinamou Cottage Boquete, Chiriquí, PA
May 9, 2020 5:56 AM - 5:59 AM
Protocol: Stationary
9 species
Rufous-tailed Hummingbird 1
Lesson's Motmot 3
Yellow-green Vireo 2
Rufous-and-white Wren 1
White-throated Thrush 1
Clay-colored Thrush 2
Thick-billed Euphonia 2
Rosy Thrush-Tanager 1
White-naped Brushfinch 1
Tinamou Cottage Boquete, Chiriquí, PA
May 9, 2020 8:54 AM - 9:31 AM
Protocol: Traveling
0.36 kilometer(s)
14 species
Blue Ground Dove 1 Chasing a White tipped Dove
White-tipped Dove 1 Chased by a blue ground Dove
Garden Emerald 1
Snowy-bellied Hummingbird 1
Black Vulture 1
Turkey Vulture 1
Red-crowned Woodpecker 1
Yellow-bellied Elaenia 1
Western Wood-Pewee 1
House Wren 1
Rosy Thrush-Tanager 2
Bay-headed Tanager 2 Pair
Red-legged Honeycreeper 2
Variable Seedeater 1
Tinamou Cottage Boquete, Chiriquí, PA
May 9, 2020 10:15 AM - 12:22 PM
Protocol: Traveling
1.02 kilometer(s)
20 species (+1 other taxa)
Gray-headed Chachalaca 1
Pale-vented Pigeon 1
Ruddy Quail-Dove 1
Collared Forest-Falcon 1 adult pale morph chased by angry Thrushes, flew by .. doing 2 short calls
Lesser Elaenia 2
Western Wood-Pewee 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee 1
Western/Eastern Wood-Pewee 1
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 1 Call
Willow Flycatcher 1 + calls
Great Kiskadee 1
Boat-billed Flycatcher 2
Red-eyed Vireo 2
Rufous-and-white Wren 2
Isthmian Wren 1
Swainson's Thrush 2 Calls eating berries
Rufous-collared Sparrow 1
Buff-rumped Warbler 2
Silver-throated Tanager 2
Variable Seedeater 2
Streaked Saltator 1
Tinamou Cottage Boquete, Chiriquí, PA
May 9, 2020 3:20 PM - 4:58 PM
Protocol: Traveling
1.18 kilometer(s)
38 species
Pale-vented Pigeon 2
Ruddy Ground Dove 2
Rufous-tailed Hummingbird 2
Black Vulture 3
Black Hawk-Eagle 1
Short-tailed Hawk 2 Dark and light morph
Red-crowned Woodpecker 1
Lineated Woodpecker 1
Cocoa Woodcreeper 1 Ho song
Streak-headed Woodcreeper 1
Lance-tailed Manakin 3
Common Tody-Flycatcher 1
Yellow-olive Flycatcher 1
Yellow-bellied Elaenia 1
Lesser Elaenia 1
Boat-billed Flycatcher 1
Streaked Flycatcher 1
Tropical Kingbird 1
Lesser Greenlet 1
Yellow-green Vireo 2 Feeding Young
Blue-and-white Swallow 2
House Wren 1
Rufous-and-white Wren 1
Isthmian Wren 1 Ho
Tropical Mockingbird 1 Ho
Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush 2
White-throated Thrush 2
Clay-colored Thrush 4
Thick-billed Euphonia 1
Lesser Goldfinch 1
White-naped Brushfinch 2
Great-tailed Grackle 1 Ho
Rufous-capped Warbler 2
Blue-gray Tanager 2
Palm Tanager 2
Bay-headed Tanager 2
Buff-throated Saltator 1
Streaked Saltator 1
Hello everybody, full moon ...so some beautiful songs of the common Potoos, yesterday we did hear even 3 Potoos!!! Did try to find them today, no luck yet! Tomorrow I am going to watch birds the whole day on the farm ( global big day) , so maybe I can find them... Also the rufous Nightjars are pretty active also you hear them on the short dark video.
Hello everybody, yes April 2020..."the
weird lock down corona quarantine April 2020" is coming to an end..up
to.. I hope a less weird May 2020, but probably it will be again a weird
month...but maybe a little bit less uncomfortable feeling...I hope. I
can say that Hans and I are very lucky to live on the farm and can walk
around and enjoy nature...so I thought I make a short video that maybe
you can be a little bit part of our lives here. Unfortunately no guests
and others can enjoy it for real..so sorry for the people who had to
cancel their vacation... fortunately most of them are planning to come
later....
What is happening in April... as most
of you do see, we still see some migrant birds on the farm, coming
through and eating themselves full on berries and insects. Since a few
weeks we do get some rain and that gives insects..also the first leaf
cutter Ants and army Ants are active and of course with the army Ants we
have even more bird activity around the big swarms. See a few of my
bird lists down below . The migration of the birds to the north is
almost done now... we still get big groups of Swainson's Thrushes, this
morning 2 red eyed Vireos and even still a female blackburnian
Warbler... of course everyday calls and sightings of eastern Wood Pewee
and western Wood Pewee. Of course I did not go higher (or lower) in the
mountains to check out what happens there, because of the lock down.
Hear from friends who live there that the Quetzales and Bellbirds and
other birds are pretty active...
On the video you will see (in order)
the leaf cutter Ants, a nest with a clay colored Thrush (happening now),
a black striped Sparrow with food for the immatures (happening now), a
bay headed Tanager with nest material (happening now), a male black
burnian Warbler, a male scarlet Tanager, a male red legged Honeycreeper
who had a bath after rain shower in the leaves, a Squirrel Cuckoo and a
western Wood Pewee , army Ants and white faced Capuchin Monkeys playing
on the roof of the great Tinamou cottage.
Tinamou Cottage Boquete, Chiriquí, PA
Apr 28, 2020 7:45 AM - 10:30 AM
Protocol: Historical
9.0 ha
Checklist Comments: clouds.Light rain last 10 minutes...farm/forest
56 species (+1 other taxa)
Little Tinamou X HO
Pale-vented Pigeon 2
Ruddy Quail-Dove 2
White-tipped Dove 2
Squirrel Cuckoo 2
White-collared Swift 13 approx low level flight in valley
Snowy-bellied Hummingbird 2
Rufous-tailed Hummingbird 2
Roadside Hawk 2
Lesson's Motmot 1
Red-crowned Woodpecker 2
Lance-tailed Manakin 2
Orange-collared Manakin 1
White-winged Becard 1
Ochre-bellied Flycatcher 1
Pale-eyed Pygmy-Tyrant 1
Yellow-olive Flycatcher 1
Southern Beardless-Tyrannulet 1
Yellow-bellied Elaenia 1 catching flies
Lesser Elaenia 4
Mistletoe Tyrannulet 2
Western Wood-Pewee 1 + song
Western/Eastern Wood-Pewee 1
Bright-rumped Attila 1
Boat-billed Flycatcher 1 HO
Social Flycatcher 2
Piratic Flycatcher 1
Lesser Greenlet 1
Yellow-green Vireo 4 heard more songs
House Wren 1
Rufous-breasted Wren 1
Rufous-and-white Wren 3
Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush 2 heard more singing birds
Swainson's Thrush 5 heard more songs and calls
White-throated Thrush 3 heard more calls and songs
Clay-colored Thrush 3 heard more songs and calls
Yellow-crowned Euphonia 2
Thick-billed Euphonia 4
Yellow-bellied Siskin 3
Rosy Thrush-Tanager 2
Black-striped Sparrow 1
Rufous-collared Sparrow 1
Yellow-thighed Brushfinch 2
Tropical Parula 2
Rufous-capped Warbler 4
Buff-rumped Warbler 1
Wilson's Warbler 1
Flame-colored Tanager 1
Red-crowned Ant-Tanager 6
Blue-gray Tanager 4
Bay-headed Tanager 3
Silver-throated Tanager 1
Scarlet-thighed Dacnis 2
Red-legged Honeycreeper 4
Yellow-faced Grassquit 2
Buff-throated Saltator 2
Streaked Saltator 1
Tinamou Cottage Boquete, Chiriquí, PA
Apr 23, 2020 8:25 AM - 11:15 AM
Protocol: Traveling
2.0 kilometer(s)
Checklist Comments: coffee farm/ upper forest sunny (warm) huge army ants swarms
43 species (+1 other taxa)
Little Tinamou 1 HO
Ruddy Quail-Dove 2 together
White-tipped Dove 3
Squirrel Cuckoo 2 (in between army Ants)
Stripe-throated Hermit 2
Rufous-tailed Hummingbird 2
Black Vulture 2
Roadside Hawk 1 HO
Lesson's Motmot 2
Red-crowned Woodpecker 1
Lineated Woodpecker 1
Yellow-headed Caracara 1 HO
Ruddy Woodcreeper 1 ( army Ant Swarm)
Streak-headed Woodcreeper 1
Lance-tailed Manakin 2 prob. more taking advantage of the army Ants
White-winged Becard 1 HO (coffee farm)
Yellow-bellied Elaenia 1
Lesser Elaenia 2
Western Wood-Pewee 1
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 1
Bright-rumped Attila 1 HO
Boat-billed Flycatcher 1 HO
Lesser Greenlet 1
Yellow-green Vireo 3 heard more songs
swallow sp. 3 high up in sky
House Wren 2
Rufous-breasted Wren 1
Rufous-and-white Wren 1
Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush 2 prob more..taking advantage of army Ants
Swainson's Thrush 11 much more...also taking advantage of army Ants and at least 5 together taking a bath in the creek
White-throated Thrush 4 taking advantage of army Ants and 2 taking a bath together with the Swainson's Trushes in the creek
Clay-colored Thrush 5 approx...hard to count ... in between the army Ants, heard much more songs
Thick-billed Euphonia 4 with nest material and 1 nest
Rosy Thrush-Tanager 2 nearby army Ants
Black-striped Sparrow 1
Yellow-thighed Brushfinch 2
Rufous-capped Warbler 4 2 pairs
Red-crowned Ant-Tanager 4 2 in between army Ants
Blue-gray Tanager 2
Bay-headed Tanager 5
Silver-throated Tanager 2
Red-legged Honeycreeper 2 stealing nest material from clay colored Thrush nest
Buff-throated Saltator 2
Streaked Saltator 3
Hello everybody, last night it was the whole night Kinkajou party on the farm, I counted at least 5. The first calls were new for me in the 21 years that we live here... they were chasing each other, heard the trees going wild...I thought also on that moment..how about the birds who are sleeping...by the way, it is a dark video, so no Kinkajou to see..only to hear.
Greetings from Terry and ...stay safe
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Hello everybody, hope you are all in good health...
This was on one of my last trips (13th of March 2020) in the cloud forest on 1975 m altitude, at this point I did not know that I cannot see this beauty for a while.. fortunately I can see good birds on our farm..but I do miss this girl/guy... next time she /he will hunt on Quetzales and Bellbirds...
Stay safe! Greetings from Terry
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5th of April 2020 what was high season is suddenly low season...all the guest are gone now and we hope safe in their houses in their country.
Flowers for everybody in the whole world!
Stay safe , stay healthy!
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Hello all! well my first post of March 2020 was ..I think... cheerful except my write up about the Warbler migration...well that is still the same story, not a big migration at all..but of course most of my observation is on the farm, because of the big C quarantine. I hope when the rain comes and that will be soon, that we have some bigger migration groups coming through. But when I see other lists from other birders on E-bird...it is also slow over there.
Hawk migration was last week pretty good for us.
Mostly broad winged and Swainson's Hawks(picture).. and even a Zone -tailed Hawk pretty low fly over the meadow!
Rainy season is coming ..."our" birds know that...
This thick billed Euphonia male is fighting in the mirror of the car already for more than a week, poor thing, those hormones.
The clay colored and white throated Thrushes are singing loud and today I did see at least 3 clay colored Thrushes making a nest in our coffee farm.
Then in one of the meadows I did see that a pair of white tipped Doves have a nest with two eggs...I never knew that they make a nest so close to the ground, I wonder if that will be a succes.
It's a weird time of the year, I was looking in our agenda and normally we would have now guests, trips and be busy. I feel sorry for the people who are now at home and missing their vacation...but most of them are coming later..next year. Now it is important that we all stay healthy.
So suddenly I have time to go into our farm and enjoy the birds..although sometimes it is hard to enjoy when you watch the news. But the nature and birds around us relax ...I know ...we are lucky.
Down below the lists of the last two days, to give an impression what happens here..bird wise.
Also some pictures of the ornate Hawk Eagle from one of my last birding trips with a Russian couple.
Probably next time when I see him/her, she/he will be adult, her/his feathers are changing fast now.
And I will end with a picture of this Tennessee Warbler out of honor for all the migration Warblers and other birds ...who are going to the north at this moment..hope they will arrive safe and make a lot of baby's.
Tinamou Cottage Boquete, Chiriquí, PA
Mar 29, 2020 4:10 PM
Protocol: Incidental
Checklist Comments: coffee farm
4 species
Double-toothed Kite 1 since 2 days in the coffee farm area...today we finally ID him/her, hope to take a picture in the coming days.
Red-crowned Woodpecker 1
Golden-olive Woodpecker 1
Laughing Falcon 1 HO (heard only)
Tinamou Cottage Boquete, Chiriquí, PA
Mar 30, 2020 4:35 PM - 5:45 PM
Protocol: Stationary
Checklist Comments: coffee farm/garden sunny
51 species
Spotted Wood-Quail X HO songs in forest
White-tipped Dove 2
Squirrel Cuckoo 1
White-collared Swift 7 approx
Stripe-throated Hermit 1
Violet Sabrewing 1
Snowy-bellied Hummingbird 1
Rufous-tailed Hummingbird 4 approx
Black Vulture X
Broad-winged Hawk 4 2 were hunting above the meadow
Lesson's Motmot 1
Red-crowned Woodpecker 1
Lineated Woodpecker 1 HO song (lower meadow)
Yellow-headed Caracara 1
Lance-tailed Manakin X HO calls and songs (forest)
Common Tody-Flycatcher 2 (garden)
Southern Beardless-Tyrannulet 1
Yellow-bellied Elaenia 1
Lesser Elaenia 3
Mistletoe Tyrannulet 1
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 1 HO call
Great Kiskadee 1
Piratic Flycatcher 1
Tropical Kingbird 2
Yellow-green Vireo 3
Black-chested Jay 2
Tropical Gnatcatcher 2
House Wren 2
Rufous-breasted Wren 1
Rufous-and-white Wren 1
Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush 1
Swainson's Thrush 1 HO call
White-throated Thrush X
Clay-colored Thrush X 3 different birds making nests in coffee farm
Thick-billed Euphonia 4
Elegant Euphonia 2
Rosy Thrush-Tanager 1
Black-striped Sparrow 2
Tennessee Warbler 3 all solo
Wilson's Warbler 1
Summer Tanager 1 HO call
Red-crowned Ant-Tanager 2
Blue-gray Tanager 2 pair
Bay-headed Tanager 2
Silver-throated Tanager 2 pair
Scarlet-thighed Dacnis 3
Red-legged Honeycreeper 5
Slate-colored Seedeater 1
Yellow-faced Grassquit 2
Buff-throated Saltator 2
Streaked Saltator 1
March started, exciting times will come soon , although..bird wise there is always something going on. We are in the second week of March...I must say..did have quit a bit of bird watching trips in different areas, but not too much migrant warblers...where are the big groups of Tennessee Warblers? It seems to get less... Ones in a while I do see a black burnian Warbler or a chestnut sided Warbler...but the big mixed flocks ...I miss them.
The amount of resplendent Quetzales and three wattled Bellbird are overwhelming this season...huge amount of fruit on the trees for them, this will be a good year for them. The weather is a kind of crazy, we had some big showers in our dry season on the farm... so the garden, forest and meadows are green.. I did start with irrigation a few days ago. I am curious how our wet season will be....
Did met really nice birdwatchers. 2 Couples discovered that they were really birdwatchers and are totally hooked... and another couple was already hooked.
A lot of fun with students in the age of 20ish... they loved the cloud forest, always a good feeling that I can show the richness, the beauty.
When I tell about this forest and about the birds that we see and not see but hear, I feel so grateful that I can do this and that I live it!
Good sightings of young three wattled Bellbirds, see above video and down below 2 pictures, they are trying to do displays, it's funny how they sound, like a boy who is getting a heavier puber voice.
and then suddenly a white faced Capuchin Monkey is staring at us, always surprises in nature:
And so a short story of my first week of March 2020...I end with these love birds:
Hello everybody, so today I was up early. Hans was hiking the Quetzal trail from Boquete towards Cerro Punta today with a nice french couple. Then I did drive to the other side of the trail (nearby Respingo ranger station) I did park the car and normally I will wait for them.Today I wanted to hike the trail by myself, it was a while ago that I did that down hill . We don't do that, because when the weather gets bad... (rain) then the river is getting high and it can be a problem to cross it. And then you should go back all the way. No car waiting for us there...so that is a hassle.
Normally I wait for Hans and the hikers and mostly I enjoy myself with the birds and a lot of times "singing" indigenous men working on the fields. Except when it rains, then I sit in the car ...sometimes for 3 hours. Well that is part of the deal.
Today it was good weather and Hans did start around 8.45am at the ranger station in Boquete and I started at 7.55am on the other side . ( after 1.5 hours drive)
My hope was to see the silvery throated Jays (around the 2350 m and higher)... when I hike the trail with birders, mostly we are too late to see them or mostly we do the trail for a day, but then the Boquete side. As a birder it is hard to go faster. I did see the Jays, lovely...not a good picture , because they were "angry birds", chasing each other...
It was nice to be on the trail on my own...I realized that we are visiting this trail already 22 years.
Still very beautiful and unspoilt. On the Cerro Punta side more intensive agriculture and sneaky some forest did disappear there..but the trail after Respingo ranger station is still the same.. nobody can touch that..only wind and rain.
I did not have the whole day...maybe next time and it was nice to hike also a bit... was amazed that the three wattled Bellbirds were so deep in the forest.
Everywhere Quetzales, this is the time that they do their displays. Even I did see already a pair making a nest
...it will be a good year for the Quetzales and Bellbirds . A lot of Bambito fruit.
Fortunately Hans and the French hikers did see male Quetzales flying and took some pictures.
They were surprised to see me (they are guest in Tinamou cottage, so I met them already before ) and even more surprised that I had coffee for them and fresh baked Cookies ("speculaas" Dutch cookie).
I moved on ...some mixed flocks, but not a lot. Nice ruddy Treerunner eating a bug
And common Chlorospingus who was showing off for me...
I took some pictures on the trail..that I want to share:
PN Volcán Barú--Sendero los Quetzales, Chiriquí, PA
Feb 28, 2020 7:55 AM - 12:35 PM
Protocol: Traveling
9.0 kilometer(s)
Checklist Comments: from respingo(500 M down below ranger) to alto chiquero (ranger)... hike with goal the silvery throated Jay (succes), partly clouds
56 species
Highland Tinamou X HO all over the trail songs
Black Guan 5
Ruddy Pigeon 1 HO song
Vaux's Swift X big group, not count , I was in forest
Green Hermit 1
Lesser Violetear 2
Talamanca Hummingbird 1
Purple-throated Mountain-gem 1
White-throated Mountain-gem 1
White-tailed Emerald 1
Cattle Egret 2
Black Vulture 2
Turkey Vulture 1
Black Hawk-Eagle 1
Resplendent Quetzal 6 heard more..all over the trail...a lot of display calls and song..pair building nest
Prong-billed Barbet 2 very active , a lot of songs
Northern Emerald-Toucanet 2
Acorn Woodpecker 3
Hairy Woodpecker 2
Sulphur-winged Parakeet X HO
Silvery-fronted Tapaculo 2 1 heard 1 seen on trail
Spot-crowned Woodcreeper 2
Lineated Foliage-gleaner 1 HO song
Ruddy Treerunner 1
Three-wattled Bellbird 3 heard much more... more spread out into the trail even around the quebrada silencio
White-winged Becard 1 + song ..very high up... 2250 m
Eye-ringed Flatbill 1 HO song
Tufted Flycatcher 2
Yellowish Flycatcher 2
Yellow-winged Vireo 2 + song
Brown-capped Vireo 2
Silvery-throated Jay 3 heard more songs..chasing each other (not friendly)
Blue-and-white Swallow 4
Ochraceous Wren 2
Gray-breasted Wood-Wren X HO
Black-faced Solitaire 2 heard songs all over the trail
Black-billed Nightingale-Thrush 1
Ruddy-capped Nightingale-Thrush 3
Mountain Thrush 2 heard songs too
Long-tailed Silky-flycatcher 6
Golden-browed Chlorophonia 2
Elegant Euphonia 1
Yellow-bellied Siskin X
Sooty-capped Chlorospingus 5
Common Chlorospingus 4
Rufous-collared Sparrow 3
Large-footed Finch 4
White-naped Brushfinch 2
Yellow-thighed Brushfinch 2
Wrenthrush 2 1 seen 1 heard only song
Black-cheeked Warbler 7
Wilson's Warbler 8
Collared Redstart 4
Silver-throated Tanager 2
Slaty Flowerpiercer 2 1 seen 1 HO song
Yellow-faced Grassquit 3
Another exciting morning...I was a little bit busy this morning, but I still had time around 10ish to go to the area la India, a part of Boquete. With my birding dog Spot and have a nice time alone in the mountains... it was hot, but mainly I was in the forest and of course I don't walk fast.
I did start with a "national Geografic" moment ...two violet Sabrewings had a nice display..never did see that so beautiful. They flew up high in the sky and dove down very fast together...but high in the blue sky they did a dance.
I did see two white tailed Emerald males fighting with each other, the gorgets of both males were so deep emerald ..it did hurt my eyes :)
A beautiful pair of thick billed Euphonias carrying nest material and two elegant Euphonias a pair, stealing nest material from another nest... I will share that video in a next post.
On my way back I met our neighbour of our other farm, while I was talking with him about serious stuff, I did see a shade of a bigger bird flying over...when I did say goodbye ..I walked along a big tree, some birds were upset ...like the white tailed Emeralds and I thought about the shade... looked up and yes two yellow eyes were staring at me...well you see the video above...
la India, Chiriquí, PA
Feb 23, 2020 10:30 AM - 1:15 PM
4.0 kilometer(s)
Checklist Comments: blue sky, warm
Band-tailed Pigeon 1
Vaux's Swift X big group
Green Hermit 1
Lesser Violetear 3
Scintillant Hummingbird 1
Violet Sabrewing 2 beautiful display between male and female. Together flew up 5 times, high up in the sky, like a dance and a fast dive down together
Stripe-tailed Hummingbird 1
White-tailed Emerald 2 fighting together, beautiful emerald throats while fighting
Snowy-bellied Hummingbird 1
Rufous-tailed Hummingbird 1
Black Vulture X
Turkey Vulture 1
Swallow-tailed Kite 1
Bicolored Hawk 1 high in a tree
Northern Emerald-Toucanet 2
Lance-tailed Manakin 2 heard more..
Three-wattled Bellbird X heard songs a bit higher up
Yellow-bellied Elaenia 2
Mountain Elaenia 2
Boat-billed Flycatcher 2
Yellow-throated Vireo 1
Brown-capped Vireo 2
Yellow-green Vireo 1 heard more
Blue-and-white Swallow X
Rufous-breasted Wren 1
Gray-breasted Wood-Wren X HO
Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush 2
White-throated Thrush 4
Golden-browed Chlorophonia X HO
Thick-billed Euphonia 2
