in August 2025...

 Hello :)

yes in August 2025..it was great weather overall... lots of sun, not too much rain...unusual for the time of the year and so good for me. I did do a lot of birdwatching... jobs in and around the house and some good hikes with the dogs (and yes with my binoculars)

I did go and check "our" Potoo... was amazed that she/he was  for a long time on her same post. This was the first picture that I took on 8th of August:

And this on 24th of August:

and this one on the 31th of August:

On the 31th of August she/he was sitting 2 posts further away, so that means she /he was busy to be more "outdoors".

I did go back 4th of September and she/he was not there anymore. It was fun to follow her/him.

In August I did go with Patricia, another birder, to the caribbean area, just after the continental divide (Palo seco nature reserve) Was fun, next to nice birds, we did see a Sloth and a Tayra and a Coati.

I did go alone on a Sunday to the Fortuna nature reserve, did find a nice new trail and spend a lot of hours there. 

A nice white nosed Coati was crossing my path. Scale crested pygmy tyrants were very active...

and very good view on a black bellied Hummingbird male....

I did go a couple of times to our other farm and did see suddenly an uniform Crake, 

 first time there. Of course I did not have my camera with me only my phone...

Bad video, but I am happy with it, because they are pretty elusive.

Normally you will find them down below the 1000 meter, but I did learn, it is possible that they can come higher in altitude. In our case 1150 meters.

The last day of August I treat myself on a visit in Potrerillos area, around a half hour drive  from us, 950m altitude. I know there a great place and  did not go there for a while. Still a great place..different birds . The barred Antshrikes were pretty active.

Almost every day I do watch birds on our own farm...now it is getting of course even more exciting...because the migrants are coming through. A nice surprise was  a cerulean Warbler...

But also one of the first ones with the cerulean(26th of August) was the western Wood Pewee (20 of August first one), a Louisiana Waterthrush, black and white Warbler, American Redstart, blackburnian Warbler. And the 25th of August the first black throated green Warbler on another farm.(1850m)

Still we did have quite a bit of immatures in the month of August... did see even the last days of August immatures of lesser Goldfinches, bay headed Tanagers, black throated Jays, yellow headed Caracara, variable Seedeaters, blue black Grassquits, yellow faced Grassquits, yellow bellied Seedeaters....as you see a lot of seedeater immatures...because in these months there is a lot of seed always, so they do nests later in the year. 

Above an immature orange billed Nightingale Thrush

While I am writing this story, the month September did start already and yesterday I did go to the wetlands with a bird friend...but that is a story for next time.. but also there... still young birdies....

juvenile black-bellied Whistling-Ducks :)

Next time more...

Happy birding!

Terry