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.
Hope you enjoy the short April 2020 video.
All best to you and stay safe and healthy...
Greetings from Terry
http://coffeeadventures.net/tinamou.html
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
