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.