A birdwatcher who lives in Boquete, Panama, since 1998, likes to tell her bird stories
Wednesday, July 23, 2025
Common Potoo immature!
scaly breasted Wren
Thursday, July 3, 2025
That was June 2025
Time flies by and June 2025 has slipped through my fingers. Almost every day I went out with my binoculars, often on the farm, but also outside the farm. No big day trips, because we are busy on the farm with doing chores. June is the month of the immatures. Everywhere you hear the squeaking of newly fledged young. The parents are busy looking for food, often with young noisy baby birds flying behind and around them. Every year I notice that the busiest times for fledging are late afternoons around 4pm. In June it often rains heavily that time. Don't always see the logic in it. You often see such a small baby bird squeaking in the rain asking for food. How many birds survive that.? Why not fly out early in the morning, then the sun often shines and more food can be found. Maybe the reason is that there are few active enemies in the rain?
Yes, after all these years of birdwatching I am still full of questions without really satisfying answers...
Two days I was birdwatching the whole day. One Day was with my friend Ann, we went to a "new"city park in the town David. It was very nice. The park is not finished yet and that makes it that some areas are pretty wild and so good for birds. This nest of a rufous and white Wren was made in a brush of very big spines..with in the spines ants who can bite bad..when you disturb them . A very safe place for the birds...apparently it is a great symbiosis. The name of the brush is Bullhorn acacia. The spines are home to ants that protect the plant also from herbivory.
Tuesday, May 27, 2025
Trip to the Netherlands May 2025 and Global Big Day 2025
Sunday, May 18, 2025
the Vermillion Flycatcher female update
Hello, the vermillion Flycatcher female is still here in the park. While I was in the Netherlands(update later this week) she was feeding the immatures of the fork tailed Flycatcher family . The family is gone now, but the female vermillion decided to stay?
Friday, April 18, 2025
baby Great Fruit-eating Bat fell to the ground
Hello...another story in exciting April!
A day ago I walked to our laundry. When I walked down the stairs I saw a bat lying on the floor.
I honestly thought it was dead. But when I put on my gloves, I saw that the ears were moving and when I wanted to pick it up, it stretched out. A baby fruit bat.. so cute.
Above the bat was the colony and so she had fallen out. I thought maybe I should hang it somewhere nearby..then the mother will find her. At that moment I thought, just show that I am her to the rest.
So I raised my arm and suddenly 1 bat from the group flies to my hand... the mother!!! Flies on my hand on the little one and made a trembling movement and a trembling sweet soft movement. I tried to take a picture...but I was one hand short..that was "occupied" with 2 bats. After about 30 seconds, the mother and child flew into the forest. What an experience again!!
Greetings from Terry
By the way I thought it was a Jamaican fruit eating Bat, but it is the great fruit eating Bat
I did post a short video from the colony on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAwwmrv2qpE
https://coffeeadventures.net/tinamou.html