Hello everyone, it's time for a story...actually every day I do watch birds and make my daily list. At the moment there are many young birds with their sometimes confusing plumage and of course the adult birds that are molting. Today is August 1th... and THE month where is the chance of seeing migration birds present again. Who will I see first!!! I'm betting on a black and white Warbler....
Last week I went to the coast again...rice fields and sniffed the sea! The road to the coast has been improved so I was actually at my destination in an hour from our farm/home. A few days before a Cattle Tyrant had been seen, I had never seen that one before, so I hoped for that too...but it's always nice to see the "normal" coast birds again...the different types of herons, Jacana's , Wood Storks... you name it... nice to see some Glossy Ibises and a few Inca Doves again. And well I haven't seen the Tyrant ...but I did see a new bird for me in Panama... the Limpkin...
He/she flew over, at first I thought of a glossy Ibis, but his bill was different, less curved and a bit more heavier and orange with a black at the end...quickly looking further some white stripes in the neck and then quickly a photo... unfortunately blurry and too far away.
Next time I hope to see him in the field on two legs. It reminded me a bit of the Crane in the Netherlands.
I will add my "best" photos of that morning to this story. All in all... it was a nice morning.
In the afternoon I picked my photos and made my list... I'll add it to my story.
Until next time.
Greetings from Terry
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Playa La Barqueta--Pantanos, Chiriquí, PA
Jul 29, 2021 8:10 AM - 10:30 AM
Protocol: Traveling
0.5 kilometer(s)
Checklist Comments: cloudy 24C
60 species
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck 40 approx
amount...also 15 chicks 1 nest
Inca Dove 2
Plain-breasted Ground Dove 1
Ruddy Ground Dove 4
Smooth-billed Ani 4
Lesser Nighthawk 1
Purple Gallinule 3
Limpkin 1 first I thought it was a glossy Ibis,
but the beak was different , somewhat curved orange/yellowish bill..at
the end dark and I did see some white spots nearby head and in neck. I took a
fast picture...but it was blurry...fly over
Black-necked Stilt (Black-necked) 2 pair
Southern Lapwing 7
Northern Jacana X
Willet 2
Laughing Gull 1 dead immature
Wood Stork 9
Magnificent Frigatebird 2
Anhinga 3
Neotropic Cormorant 9
Brown Pelican 1
Bare-throated Tiger-Heron 1 through car window
Great Egret X a lot , did not count...approx 100
Snowy Egret 3
Little Blue Heron 2
Cattle Egret 15
Green Heron 5
Black-crowned Night-Heron 4
White Ibis 2
Glossy Ibis 2 flew over together
Pearl Kite 1
Roadside Hawk 1
Ringed Kingfisher 2
Green Kingfisher 1
Red-crowned Woodpecker 3
Crested Caracara 1
Yellow-headed Caracara 3
Laughing Falcon 1
Bat Falcon 2
Orange-chinned Parakeet 8
Red-lored Parrot 2
Brown-throated Parakeet 6
Common Tody-Flycatcher 2
Great Kiskadee 5
Rusty-margined Flycatcher 1
Tropical Kingbird 3
Fork-tailed Flycatcher 1
Scrub Greenlet 1
Southern Rough-winged Swallow 4
Gray-breasted Martin 5
House Wren 1
Tropical Mockingbird (Tropical) 3
House Sparrow 1
Yellow-crowned Euphonia 2
Eastern Meadowlark 1
Red-breasted Meadowlark 3
Great-tailed Grackle 3
Blue-gray Tanager 4
Palm Tanager 3
Blue-black Grassquit 5
Variable Seedeater 3
Morelet's Seedeater 4
Yellow-bellied Seedeater 2
And a very nice... very Panamanian scene...on the back ground loads of great Egrets/Cattle Egrets:
