This morning I was with Ann in the park in Boquete ... for Ann it was the first time that she would see a female Vermilion Flycatcher (that was the goal), she had just like me only seen the male abroad. So for her a new bird just like I did last Saturday, for Panama. On Sunday another group had seen the female vermilion flycatcher female (still there) and strangely enough she was at one point in a nest of a fork tailed Flycatcher? As far as I know she does not breed here in Panama and is a rare migrant. And then sharing the nest with another kind of Flycatcher? We saw quite a few special things this morning. The first thing we saw was that she was flycatching ... a normal thing huh? Then she sat on the ground and took a twig in her beak (luckily Ann had her camera at that moment, see down below :)) and flew with it into the tree. She was attacked by a pair of fork tailed Flycatchers that have a nest there. Then she went back to catch flies for a while and after about an hour she flew back into the tree, this time with a white feather. Towards the nest. The male fork tailed Flycatcher was sitting on the nest breeding, the female fork tailed Flycatcher was trying to get the Vermilion Flycatcher away.. the Vermilion Flycatcher did join the fork tailed Flycatcher male on the nest.. (see video and of course Ann and I were talking about this phenomenon... are her hormones at a peak? She is totally out of sorts? Will she leave at some point? We are going to study this bird a bit more and read about it.
Greetings from Terry
to the right you see the female Fork tailed Flycatcher
try to chase away the Vermilion Flycatcher from her
"husband" and nest and the Vermilion Flycatcher is
already almost on the nest:)
took with her in the tree
We had a great morning:
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