Wednesday, December 6, 2017
brown violet Ear with song
I had to zoom in, but look to the cute little Ears!!!
Greetings Terry
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white tailed Emerald male Boquete Panama
I did go back to my spot (see former post) and more different species of Hummingbirds. Summer is really there! See list down below... Oe yes and a lifer for me! yellow rumped Warbler
Greetings from Terry
la India, Chiriquí, PA Dec 6, 2017 8:10 AM - 12:00 PM Protocol: Traveling 1.0 kilometer(s) Comments: did not count exactly the Hummingbirds wind from north, sun ,last half hour clouds came in. 71 species (+1 other taxa) Black Vulture 6 Turkey Vulture 2 Roadside Hawk 1 Broad-winged Hawk 1 hawk sp. 1 Squirrel Cuckoo 1 Brown Violetear 10
approx prob more video : https://youtu.be/PdelP-gZ73Q Lesser Violetear 20 approx , prob more Magenta-throated Woodstar 8 approx, prob more Scintillant Hummingbird 6 prob more
Garden Emerald 4 Violet Sabrewing 3 Stripe-tailed Hummingbird 1 White-tailed Emerald 4 video https://youtu.be/pO0m8rfElP4 Snowy-bellied Hummingbird 15 approx , prob more Rufous-tailed Hummingbird 3 Northern Emerald-Toucanet 1 Acorn Woodpecker 3 Red-crowned Woodpecker 4 Golden-olive Woodpecker 1 Yellow-headed Caracara 1 Red-fronted Parrotlet 4 + flight calls Barred Antshrike 1 Olivaceous Woodcreeper 1 Streak-headed Woodcreeper 1 Slaty Spinetail 1 HO Pale-breasted Spinetail 1 Mountain Elaenia 3 Paltry Tyrannulet 1 Scale-crested Pygmy-Tyrant 1 first time seen in this area Yellow-olive Flycatcher 1 Dark Pewee 1 Boat-billed Flycatcher 2 Tropical Kingbird 1 Masked Tityra 1 Yellow-throated Vireo 2 Philadelphia Vireo 2 Red-eyed Vireo 1 House Wren 2 Rufous-breasted Wren 1 Rufous-and-white Wren 2 Isthmian Wren 4 2 heard 2 seen Tropical Gnatcatcher 2 Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush 2 Mountain Thrush 3 Clay-colored Thrush 2 White-throated Thrush 1 Tropical Mockingbird 1 Rosy Thrush-Tanager 1 HO Black-and-white Warbler 1 Tennessee Warbler 6 prob more , in mixed flock Gray-crowned Yellowthroat 2 Tropical Parula 1 Blackburnian Warbler 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler 3 in mixed flock + calls all together in one mixed flock Wilson's Warbler 1 Blue-gray Tanager 2 Bay-headed Tanager 2 Silver-throated Tanager 3 Slaty Flowerpiercer 2 Blue-black Grassquit 3 Variable Seedeater 2 Yellow-faced Grassquit 2 Buff-throated Saltator 3 Streaked Saltator 1 Black-striped Sparrow 2 Rufous-collared Sparrow 5 White-naped Brushfinch 2 Summer Tanager 1 White-winged Tanager 3 Baltimore Oriole 3 Lesser Goldfinch 3
Thursday, November 23, 2017
Time for flowers and Hummingbirds
Hello everybody!
Still we have some days of mist and clouds and rain...but also days with nice sunny mornings and in the afternoon some clouds and rain. Yes the dry season is coming and the signs are here.
The Hummingbirds are really active and easier to see... the flowers are already numerous!!
So let's give you an impression of the flowers...
male magenta throated Woodstar
lesser violet Ear
juvenile male ruby throated Hummingbird
stripe throated Hermit
fiery throated Hummingbird
Still we have some days of mist and clouds and rain...but also days with nice sunny mornings and in the afternoon some clouds and rain. Yes the dry season is coming and the signs are here.
The Hummingbirds are really active and easier to see... the flowers are already numerous!!
So let's give you an impression of the flowers...
And so this is just a small impression of the flowers that are blooming, but you get an idea.
Hummingbirds are pretty active with all that nectar!
Not easy to take pictures...but here they are a few ....
You can click on the pictures to see the birds better.
female white throated Mountain Gem
Down below some bird lists of the last week.
Greetings and happy birding!!!
Terry van Niekerk
Tinamou Cottage Boquete, Chiriquí, PA Nov 17, 2017 7:30 AM - 7:40 AM Protocol: Stationary Comments: front of house 28 species (+1 other taxa) Little Tinamou 1 HO Spotted Wood-Quail 1 HO Magenta-throated Woodstar 1 Rufous-tailed Hummingbird 2 Lesson's Motmot 1 Acorn Woodpecker 1 Streak-headed Woodcreeper 1 Lance-tailed Manakin 1 Yellow-throated Vireo 1 Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush 1 HO Clay-colored Thrush 3 Rosy Thrush-Tanager 1 HO Louisiana/Northern Waterthrush 1 Black-and-white Warbler 1 Tennessee Warbler 3 American Redstart 1 Black-throated Green Warbler 1 Costa Rican Warbler 2 Wilson's Warbler 1 Blue-gray Tanager 2 Bay-headed Tanager 2 Silver-throated Tanager 1 Buff-throated Saltator 2 White-naped Brushfinch 2 Summer Tanager 1 Flame-colored Tanager 1 Baltimore Oriole 1 Golden-browed Chlorophonia 2 heard more Thick-billed Euphonia 2
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la India, Chiriquí, PA
Nov 17, 2017 8:15 AM - 11:55 AM
Protocol: Traveling
1.0 kilometer(s)
Comments: sun last hour clouds, lot of mixed flocks with migration Warblers/ Vireos.. so the counts are approx...
56 species (+3 other taxa)
Black Vulture 15 approx
Turkey Vulture 2
Roadside Hawk 1
Broad-winged Hawk 2
hawk sp. 1
Ruddy Ground-Dove 4
White-tipped Dove 2
Lesser Violetear 8 approx
Magenta-throated Woodstar 5
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1 did show a few red spots near the base of the throat (male juv)
Scintillant Hummingbird 1
Garden Emerald 3
Violet Sabrewing 3
Snowy-bellied Hummingbird 5
Rufous-tailed Hummingbird 3
hummingbird sp. 1 I am almost sure that it was a female ruby throated Hummingbird, because of very white belly and a very small postocular spot. Female garden Emerald , that I thought first...has a long white stripe
Acorn Woodpecker 3
Yellow-headed Caracara 1
Pale-breasted Spinetail 1 HO
Mountain Elaenia 2
Paltry Tyrannulet 2
Eastern Wood-Pewee 1
Western/Eastern Wood-Pewee 1
Social Flycatcher 2
Tropical Kingbird 2
Lance-tailed Manakin 1
Masked Tityra 1
Yellow-throated Vireo 1
Philadelphia Vireo 2
Brown-capped Vireo 1
Red-eyed Vireo 2
Blue-and-white Swallow 20 approx
House Wren 2
Isthmian Wren 2
Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush 1
Clay-colored Thrush 3
White-throated Thrush 1
Tropical Mockingbird 2
Black-and-white Warbler 1
Tennessee Warbler 10 approx, prob more
American Redstart 1
Blackburnian Warbler 1
Chestnut-sided Warbler 1
Black-throated Green Warbler 3
Rufous-capped Warbler 2
Wilson's Warbler 1
Blue-gray Tanager 2
Silver-throated Tanager 2
Blue-black Grassquit 5
Yellow-faced Grassquit 2
Buff-throated Saltator 1
Black-striped Sparrow 2
Rufous-collared Sparrow 5
White-naped Brushfinch 2
Summer Tanager 1
Flame-colored Tanager 2
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 1
Baltimore Oriole 1 heard more
Lesser Goldfinch 2
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finca Oasis, Chiriquí, PA Nov 18, 2017 6:45 AM - 12:25 PM Protocol: Stationary Comments: sun 57 species Little Tinamou 1 Black Vulture 8 Turkey Vulture 2 Black Hawk-Eagle 1 Roadside Hawk 2 Broad-winged Hawk 1 Swainson's Hawk 1 Gray-cowled Wood-Rail 3 Ruddy Ground-Dove 9 White-tipped Dove 1 White-collared Swift 10 approx prob more Vaux's Swift 2 Stripe-throated Hermit 1 Snowy-bellied Hummingbird 1 Rufous-tailed Hummingbird 6 approx Lineated Woodpecker 1 Red-lored Parrot 3 heard more Streak-headed Woodcreeper 1 Ruddy Foliage-gleaner 1 Yellow Tyrannulet 2 Paltry Tyrannulet 2 Common Tody-Flycatcher 2 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 1 White-ruffed Manakin 1 Orange-collared Manakin 2 Yellow-throated Vireo 2 Black-chested Jay 4 heard more House Wren 2 Rufous-breasted Wren 1 Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush 1 HO Clay-colored Thrush 3 Golden-winged Warbler 1 Tennessee Warbler 2 Mourning Warbler 1 Blackburnian Warbler 1 Chestnut-sided Warbler 5 Black-throated Green Warbler 1 Rufous-capped Warbler 2 Buff-rumped Warbler 1 Wilson's Warbler 1 Blue-gray Tanager 5 Golden-hooded Tanager 3 Bay-headed Tanager 1 Green Honeycreeper 1 Variable Seedeater 3 Bananaquit 2 Yellow-faced Grassquit 2 Buff-throated Saltator 2 Streaked Saltator 1 Black-striped Sparrow 2 Costa Rican Brushfinch 3 White-naped Brushfinch 1 HO Summer Tanager 1 Crested Oropendola 1 Baltimore Oriole 1 Yellow-crowned Euphonia 1 Spot-crowned Euphonia 1 HO
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Tinamou Cottage Boquete, Chiriquí, PA Nov 19, 2017 6:50 AM - 9:55 AM Protocol: Historical Comments: balcony garden forest meadow.. sun 67 species (+1 other taxa) Little Tinamou 1 HO Spotted Wood-Quail 1 HO Cattle Egret 1 Black Vulture 3 Turkey Vulture 1 Roadside Hawk 1 Squirrel Cuckoo 1 Common Pauraque 1 Lesser Violetear 2 Magenta-throated Woodstar 1 Snowy-bellied Hummingbird 2 Rufous-tailed Hummingbird 5 Red-crowned Woodpecker 2 Golden-olive Woodpecker 1 Lineated Woodpecker 1 Yellow-headed Caracara 1 Blue-headed Parrot 14 Streak-headed Woodcreeper 1 Yellow-bellied Elaenia 4 Mountain Elaenia 2 Ochre-bellied Flycatcher 1 Paltry Tyrannulet 1 Common Tody-Flycatcher 1 Yellow-olive Flycatcher 1 Eastern Wood-Pewee 1 Western/Eastern Wood-Pewee 1 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 2 Bright-rumped Attila 1 Dusky-capped Flycatcher 1 Boat-billed Flycatcher 2 Social Flycatcher 2 Tropical Kingbird 2 Lance-tailed Manakin 2 Rufous-browed Peppershrike 2 answering eachother Yellow-throated Vireo 1 House Wren 2 Rufous-breasted Wren 2 Isthmian Wren 1 Tropical Gnatcatcher 2 Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush 2 Swainson's Thrush 1 Clay-colored Thrush 6 Rosy Thrush-Tanager 2 Golden-winged Warbler 2 Black-and-white Warbler 1 Tennessee Warbler 2 Chestnut-sided Warbler 3 Rufous-capped Warbler 2 Golden-crowned Warbler 2 Gray-headed Tanager 2 already a week together, in brush giving calls Blue-gray Tanager 4 Palm Tanager 1 Bay-headed Tanager 3 Silver-throated Tanager 2 Red-legged Honeycreeper 3 Yellow-faced Grassquit 1 Buff-throated Saltator 4 Streaked Saltator 1 Black-striped Sparrow 2 Rufous-collared Sparrow 1 White-naped Brushfinch 2 Summer Tanager 1 Flame-colored Tanager 1 Red-crowned Ant-Tanager 4 Baltimore Oriole 1 Yellow-crowned Euphonia 1 Thick-billed Euphonia 3 Lesser Goldfinch 3
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Sendero Culebra, Chiriquí, PA Nov 21, 2017 9:00 AM - 11:40 AM Protocol: Traveling 0.2 kilometer(s) Comments: sun , last hour clouds came in 46 species (+1 other taxa) Cattle Egret 13 Black Vulture 2 White-tipped Dove 1 pigeon/dove sp. 1 Fiery-throated Hummingbird 1 Purple-throated Mountain-gem 2 White-throated Mountain-gem 5 approx Scintillant Hummingbird 2 Prong-billed Barbet 3 Hairy Woodpecker 1 Bat Falcon 1 HO Crimson-fronted Parakeet 1 HO lower down Silvery-fronted Tapaculo 1 HO Spot-crowned Woodcreeper 1 Lineated Foliage-gleaner 1 Red-faced Spinetail 2 Paltry Tyrannulet 1 Tufted Flycatcher 2 Dark Pewee 2 Yellowish Flycatcher 1 HO Black Phoebe 1 Rufous-browed Peppershrike 1 + song Brown-capped Vireo 2 Blue-and-white Swallow 6 approx , prob more Scaly-breasted Wren 1 HO House Wren 1 Ochraceous Wren 1 Gray-breasted Wood-Wren 2 heard more Black-faced Solitaire 1 Clay-colored Thrush 2 Northern Waterthrush 1 Tennessee Warbler 2 Tropical Parula 1 Blackburnian Warbler 2 Wilson's Warbler 1 Slate-throated Redstart 2 Spangle-cheeked Tanager 3 Silver-throated Tanager 4 Slaty Flowerpiercer 2 Yellow-faced Grassquit 1 Common Chlorospingus 8 approx , prob more Rufous-collared Sparrow 2 Yellow-thighed Finch 2 Summer Tanager 1 Flame-colored Tanager 1 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 1 Lesser Goldfinch 3
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Tinamou Cottage Boquete, Chiriquí, PA Nov 23, 2017 4:35 PM - 5:05 PM Protocol: Stationary Comments: cloudy/mist balcony 31 species Little Tinamou 2 HO Gray-headed Chachalaca 6 Rufous-tailed Hummingbird 3 Red-crowned Woodpecker 2 Golden-olive Woodpecker 1 HO Lineated Woodpecker 1 Common Tody-Flycatcher 1 Yellow-olive Flycatcher 2 Lance-tailed Manakin 2 Yellow-throated Vireo 1 Rufous-breasted Wren 2 Rufous-and-white Wren 1 Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush 1 Clay-colored Thrush 5 Rosy Thrush-Tanager 2 Tennessee Warbler 2 Chestnut-sided Warbler 1 Golden-crowned Warbler 2 Wilson's Warbler 1 Blue-gray Tanager 2 Bay-headed Tanager 2 Silver-throated Tanager 2 Red-legged Honeycreeper 3 Buff-throated Saltator 3 Black-striped Sparrow 1 White-naped Brushfinch 2 Summer Tanager 1 Flame-colored Tanager 1 Red-crowned Ant-Tanager 3 Baltimore Oriole 1 Thick-billed Euphonia 4
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Sunday, October 29, 2017
Tuesday, October 17, 2017
lot's of energy in the forest!!! ( update 19th of October , see down below)
This morning finally I had more time to check out all those birds around us... high peak of migration birds, all day we hear the little sounds of them. They are very active so I took a video of a much easier bird, our bird ...the blue gray Tanager eating berries, but on the video you can hear the sounds of the migration birds!
While I was staring into the forest around the cottages with all those energetic birds, I was thinking...where is this reminding me of... suddenly I did know that.... last week friends of us did visit us with two kids of 5 and 7 years old, on the moment they did enter our house I felt the same energy as I felt this morning in the forest... hectic, sweet, energy, not organized, lovable, messy and enjoyable....
Anyway it was a good morning ..sun summer day and I love our farm, I don't blame the birds..what is more attractive then a water stream, muddy area, coffee trees, flowers, berries, open area, not organized messy dead woody areas....
https://youtu.be/RM0URTPPUs8 another video of rosy Thrush Tanager this morning behind the little Tinamou cottage and of course the bird list of this morning ...see down below...
Greetings from Terry☺
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Tinamou Cottage Boquete, Chiriquí, PA Oct 17, 2017 8:45 AM - 9:45 AM Comments: sun , wind from north, birding around cottages 51 species (+1 other taxa) Little Tinamou 1 HO (heard only) Gray-headed Chachalaca 6 Turkey Vulture 2 White-tipped Dove 1 pigeon/dove sp. 1 too fast flew away, I think ruddy Quail Dove Squirrel Cuckoo 1 Stripe-throated Hermit 1 Violet Sabrewing 1 Snowy-bellied Hummingbird 1 Rufous-tailed Hummingbird 4 Lesson's Motmot 1 Red-crowned Woodpecker 1 Golden-olive Woodpecker 1 Lineated Woodpecker 1 Bat Falcon 1 + call fly over... last few days seen above meadows(hunting) Olivaceous Woodcreeper 1 + call Streak-headed Woodcreeper 1 Mountain Elaenia 1 Yellow-olive Flycatcher 1 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 1 + calls Boat-billed Flycatcher 2 Lance-tailed Manakin 2 Red-eyed Vireo 1 Black-chested Jay 2 fighting with the window image House Wren 1 Rufous-breasted Wren 1 Tropical Gnatcatcher 2 Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush 2 Clay-colored Thrush 2 White-throated Thrush 1 Rosy Thrush-Tanager 3 https://youtu.be/RM0URTPPUs8
Summer Tanager 1 Golden-winged Warbler 2 Black-and-white Warbler 3 Tennessee Warbler 3 American Redstart 2 Blackburnian Warbler 2 Chestnut-sided Warbler 4 Rufous-capped Warbler 1 Costa Rican Warbler 2 Wilson's Warbler 3 Slate-throated Redstart 1 Blue-gray Tanager 2 https://youtu.be/VahLqGHkkHY Bay-headed Tanager 1 Silver-throated Tanager 3 Red-legged Honeycreeper 3 Buff-throated Saltator 3 Flame-colored Tanager 1 White-winged Tanager 2 Red-crowned Ant-Tanager 5 Thick-billed Euphonia 3 Lesser Goldfinch 2
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(more bird lists on ebird.org)
19th of October 2017 I did go out this morning...soo much birds here on the farm in the forest.So here an addition
Tinamou Cottage Boquete, Chiriquí, PA
Oct 19, 2017 8:50 AM - 10:50 AM
Protocol: Traveling
1.0 kilometer(s)
Comments: forest.. cloudy huge bird activity ...Ant swarm and a lot of berries on the trees
55 species (+1 other taxa)
Little Tinamou 1 HO
Gray-headed Chachalaca 2 heard more
Turkey Vulture 2
Squirrel Cuckoo 1
Stripe-throated Hermit 1
Lesser Violetear 1
Snowy-bellied Hummingbird 2
Rufous-tailed Hummingbird 2
Lesson's Motmot 1
Lineated Woodpecker 1 HO
Yellow-headed Caracara 2
Brown-throated Parakeet 2
White-flanked Antwren 1 + call... first time seen on farm
Ruddy Woodcreeper 2 Ant Swarm
Cocoa Woodcreeper 1
Streak-headed Woodcreeper 2
Yellow-bellied Elaenia 2
Mountain Elaenia 1
Paltry Tyrannulet 1
Western Wood-Pewee 1
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 2 + calls and one with song
Bright-rumped Attila 1 HO song
Lance-tailed Manakin 2
Rufous-browed Peppershrike 1 HO
Red-eyed Vireo 5 ( eating berries)
Black-chested Jay 2 heard more
Rufous-breasted Wren 2
Rufous-and-white Wren 1
Isthmian Wren 1 HO
Tropical Gnatcatcher 4
Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush 4
Swainson's Thrush 3
Clay-colored Thrush 2
White-throated Thrush 1
Rosy Thrush-Tanager 1 heard more
Louisiana/Northern Waterthrush 1
Golden-winged Warbler 3 1 seen on edge of forest, 1 at the stream and 1 (female) above the waterfall
Black-and-white Warbler 4
Tennessee Warbler 2
Rufous-capped Warbler 2
Golden-crowned Warbler 2 + song and new on the farm!
Buff-rumped Warbler 1 + song
Wilson's Warbler 1
Blue-gray Tanager 2
Bay-headed Tanager 1
Silver-throated Tanager 2
Red-legged Honeycreeper 3
Thick-billed Seed-Finch 2 in bamboo + call 1 heard 1 male seen
Buff-throated Saltator 3
Black-striped Sparrow 1
White-naped Brushfinch 1
Flame-colored Tanager 2
White-winged Tanager 1 heard more
Red-crowned Ant-Tanager 5
Thick-billed Euphonia 1
Lesser Goldfinch 2
Greetings from Terry
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Thursday, September 28, 2017
Finally a new post ! September 2017 a pair of tropical Gnatcatchers and more
September 2017... one day to go and October is there! Time is flying. September is a month where we paint..fix things... getting ready for high season. But September is of course also exciting because the migrant birds are coming back or coming through. My ears and eyes are open, well always, but now double sharp! A very great Warbler and a lifer for me was the yellow-throated Warbler on the continental Divide on the 24th of September.
The first migration bird this season was on the 12th of August ...a Louisiana Waterthrush.On 1750 meter alitude.
Then regular I do see the black and white Warbler (first one 14 th of August on 1650 m altitude), American Redstart (first one 2th of September on 1250 m altitude), black burnian Warblers (first one 16th September here on the farm , 1250 m altitude) and the red eyed Vireo's ( first one 15th of September here on the farm)yellow bellied Flycatcher ( first one 6 September here on the farm) and of course the western Wood Pewee's see picture ( first one 6th of August on 600 m altitude)
Now it is waiting for the rest!!!
"Our birds" were pretty active in September and still ... young birds who were born in this year, fighting over territory. Even still everyday we have heard clay colored Thrushes singing on the farm.And always interesting that when there is a migrant bird coming through, some birds are upset with these newcomers. Specially the rufous capped Warblers, silver throated Warblers are quite territorial.
Never a boring moment in "bird country".
A lot of birds are molting, changing the feathers. So at this moment they hide more, keep themselves safe. And they do sunning (sunbaths) and anting (Antbaths), both is about cleaning their feathers and get rid of mites and other parasites. Sunning can be also just warming up after a cold night, rain showers or just to relax. This is all a very short explanation, there is more to tell about this.
Anyway this pair of tropical Gnatcatchers were busy the whole morning to take a sunbath. It was in front of our house on an old Squirrel nest, after the Squirrel left the nest, two blue gray Tanagers made a nest in it, then after that a thick billed Euphonia and bay headed Tanagers did use nest material from that nest...then the wind did damage the nest and now it is flat "thing" where the pair of Tropical Gnatcatchers took their baths...isn't that cool!
Male...
Female....
And of course a you tube video, (I had to zoom in..did not want to disturb , this time I moved more then the energetic Gnatcatchers :) )
Down below I will add some bird lists from September.
Up to the month of October!... greetings from Terry
http://coffeeadventures.net/tinamou.html
The first migration bird this season was on the 12th of August ...a Louisiana Waterthrush.On 1750 meter alitude.
Then regular I do see the black and white Warbler (first one 14 th of August on 1650 m altitude), American Redstart (first one 2th of September on 1250 m altitude), black burnian Warblers (first one 16th September here on the farm , 1250 m altitude) and the red eyed Vireo's ( first one 15th of September here on the farm)yellow bellied Flycatcher ( first one 6 September here on the farm) and of course the western Wood Pewee's see picture ( first one 6th of August on 600 m altitude)
Now it is waiting for the rest!!!
"Our birds" were pretty active in September and still ... young birds who were born in this year, fighting over territory. Even still everyday we have heard clay colored Thrushes singing on the farm.And always interesting that when there is a migrant bird coming through, some birds are upset with these newcomers. Specially the rufous capped Warblers, silver throated Warblers are quite territorial.
Never a boring moment in "bird country".
A lot of birds are molting, changing the feathers. So at this moment they hide more, keep themselves safe. And they do sunning (sunbaths) and anting (Antbaths), both is about cleaning their feathers and get rid of mites and other parasites. Sunning can be also just warming up after a cold night, rain showers or just to relax. This is all a very short explanation, there is more to tell about this.
Anyway this pair of tropical Gnatcatchers were busy the whole morning to take a sunbath. It was in front of our house on an old Squirrel nest, after the Squirrel left the nest, two blue gray Tanagers made a nest in it, then after that a thick billed Euphonia and bay headed Tanagers did use nest material from that nest...then the wind did damage the nest and now it is flat "thing" where the pair of Tropical Gnatcatchers took their baths...isn't that cool!
And of course a you tube video, (I had to zoom in..did not want to disturb , this time I moved more then the energetic Gnatcatchers :) )
Down below I will add some bird lists from September.
Up to the month of October!... greetings from Terry
http://coffeeadventures.net/tinamou.html
la India, Chiriquí, PA Sep 2, 2017 8:10 AM - 10:20 AM Comments: sun and last hour clouds came in 51 species Little Tinamou 1 HO Black Vulture 2 Turkey Vulture 2 Roadside Hawk 1 Scaled Pigeon 2 White-tipped Dove 4 Snowy-bellied Hummingbird 1 Rufous-tailed Hummingbird 2 Acorn Woodpecker 5 Red-crowned Woodpecker 2 Yellow-headed Caracara 1 Streak-headed Woodcreeper 1 Pale-breasted Spinetail 1 HO Yellow-bellied Elaenia 1 Mountain Elaenia 1 Paltry Tyrannulet 2 Yellow-olive Flycatcher 1 Western Wood-Pewee 2 Eastern Wood-Pewee 1 Dusky-capped Flycatcher 1 Great Kiskadee 1 HO Tropical Kingbird 2 Black-and-white Becard 2 Rufous-browed Peppershrike 1 Lesser Greenlet 2 Brown-capped Vireo 1 + song Blue-and-white Swallow 30 House Wren 2 Isthmian Wren 2 Tropical Gnatcatcher 2 Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush 2 Clay-colored Thrush 2 Tropical Mockingbird 1 Louisiana Waterthrush 1 American Redstart 1 Tropical Parula 1 Rufous-capped Warbler 2 Costa Rican Warbler 3 Wilson's Warbler 1 first one this season... Slate-throated Redstart 1 Blue-gray Tanager 2 Blue-black Grassquit 10 approx, seen , heard more Yellow-bellied Seedeater 3 Yellow-faced Grassquit 2 Buff-throated Saltator 2 Black-striped Sparrow 2 Rufous-collared Sparrow 12 approx, heard more White-naped Brushfinch 4 Flame-colored Tanager 1 White-winged Tanager 3 Lesser Goldfinch 5
marina Pedregal, Chiriquí, PA nearby David down town on coast Sep 4, 2017 8:50 AM - 10:05 AM Comments: clouds 19 species (+1 other taxa) Magnificent Frigatebird 2 Anhinga 1 Bare-throated Tiger-Heron 1 :Little Blue Heron 1 White Ibis 4 Black Vulture 7 Roadside Hawk 1 Southern Lapwing 1 HO Spotted Sandpiper 4 Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 3 Pale-vented Pigeon 1 Ruddy Ground-Dove 2 Scaly-breasted Hummingbird 1 Red-crowned Woodpecker 2 Lineated Woodpecker 1 HO Yellow-headed Caracara 1 Olive-sided Flycatcher 1:Western/Eastern Wood-Pewee 1 Mangrove Swallow 12 Picture above Bananaquit 1
cordillera, Chiriquí, PA Sep 9, 2017 6:10 AM - 10:30 AM Protocol: Traveling 0.1 kilometer(s) Comments: thin clouds 62 species (+4 other taxa) Gray-headed Chachalaca 5 Cattle Egret 5 Black Vulture 2 Turkey Vulture 3 Band-tailed Pigeon 7 Squirrel Cuckoo 2 White-collared Swift 50 approx, group flew over Purple-crowned Fairy 1 Scaly-breasted Hummingbird 1 Snowy-bellied Hummingbird 1 hummingbird sp. 1 Lattice-tailed Trogon 1 + call first time for me in this area Olivaceous Piculet 2 Red-crowned Woodpecker 2 Crested Caracara 1 Yellow-headed Caracara 2 Laughing Falcon 1 HO Blue-headed Parrot 1 + call Red-lored Parrot 4 Brown-throated Parakeet 4 Ruddy Foliage-gleaner 1 + song Slaty Spinetail 1 Pale-breasted Spinetail 2 + song Yellow Tyrannulet 2 Paltry Tyrannulet 2 Common Tody-Flycatcher 2 Western/Eastern Wood-Pewee 1 Empidonax sp. 1 no eye ring, brighter wing bars, pumping tail..somewhat yellowish on belly..Willow? Great Kiskadee 1 Boat-billed Flycatcher 2 Social Flycatcher 3 Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher 1 + call Tropical Kingbird 2 White-ruffed Manakin 2 :Lesser Greenlet 2 Blue-and-white Swallow 8 approx swallow sp. 2 It looked like the northern rough winged Swallow, too dark and too far away for ID Scaly-breasted Wren 1 did see movement, heard more the song House Wren 1 Riverside Wren 1 HO Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush 1 HO Clay-colored Thrush 1 Tropical Parula 2 Buff-rumped Warbler 1 HO Slate-throated Redstart 1 Cherrie's Tanager 8 approx Blue-gray Tanager 6 Golden-hooded Tanager 4 Bay-headed Tanager 4 Silver-throated Tanager 2 Scarlet-thighed Dacnis 2 Blue Dacnis 1 + call:Red-legged Honeycreeper 2 Blue-black Grassquit 3 Variable Seedeater 3 Yellow-bellied Seedeater 2 Bananaquit 2 Yellow-faced Grassquit 2 Buff-throated Saltator 5 Black-striped Sparrow 2 Rufous-collared Sparrow 2 Eastern Meadowlark 1 HO song Crested Oropendola 2 Yellow-crowned Euphonia 5 Thick-billed Euphonia 2 Lesser Goldfinch 1
palma real, Chiriquí, PA Sep 9, 2017 11:00 AM - 12:25 PM Protocol: Stationary Comments: clouds 50 species (+2 other taxa) Black Vulture 2 Roadside Hawk 1 White-tipped Dove 1 Smooth-billed/Groove-billed Ani 2 Squirrel Cuckoo 1 Rufous-tailed Hummingbird 1 Lesson's Motmot 1 Olivaceous Piculet 2 Slaty Antwren 1 + song Dusky Antbird 1 + song Bicolored Antbird 1 + song Tawny-winged Woodcreeper 1 very territorial towards the spotted Woodcreeper, chasing him away all the time.. + call Spotted Woodcreeper 1 + song Streaked Xenops 1 + song, first time I do see this bird in this area Yellow-crowned Tyrannulet 2 + song Greenish Elaenia 1 + call Paltry Tyrannulet 1 Yellow-olive Flycatcher 1 Western/Eastern Wood-Pewee 1 Bright-rumped Attila 2 + song Great Kiskadee 1 HO Social Flycatcher 2 Tropical Kingbird 2 Orange-collared Manakin 5 Lesser Greenlet 1 Black-chested Jay 4 Scaly-breasted Wren 1 heard only House Wren 1 Rufous-breasted Wren 2 Isthmian Wren 1 HO Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush 1 Clay-colored Thrush 1 Black-and-white Warbler 2 Rufous-capped Warbler 2 Cherrie's Tanager 5 Blue-gray Tanager 4 Palm Tanager 2 Bay-headed Tanager 4 Blue Dacnis 1 Green Honeycreeper 2 Yellow-bellied Seedeater 1 Bananaquit 3 Yellow-faced Grassquit 2 Buff-throated Saltator 4 Streaked Saltator 1 Black-striped Sparrow 1 Orange-billed Sparrow 1 + song Red-crowned Ant-Tanager 5 Blue-black Grosbeak 1 Crested Oropendola 2 + song Yellow-crowned Euphonia 3 Spot-crowned Euphonia 2 + song
Sendero Culebra, Chiriquí, PA Sep 19, 2017 9:00 AM - 11:40 AM Protocol: Traveling 1.0 kilometer(s) Comments: sun 39 species White-throated Mountain-gem 2 :Stripe-tailed Hummingbird 1 Prong-billed Barbet 1 Brown-throated Parakeet 2 Streak-headed Woodcreeper 1 HO Ruddy Treerunner 5 Red-faced Spinetail 4 Mountain Elaenia 2 Dark Pewee 1 Tropical Kingbird 2 Barred Becard 1 Brown-capped Vireo 3 Ochraceous Wren 1 Gray-breasted Wood-Wren 5 American Dipper 2 Black-faced Solitaire 1 + song Slaty-backed Nightingale-Thrush 1 HO song Ruddy-capped Nightingale-Thrush 1 HO call Tropical Mockingbird 1 Rosy Thrush-Tanager 1 HO Louisiana Waterthrush 1 Black-and-white Warbler 2 Flame-throated Warbler 1 Tennessee Warbler 1 Tropical Parula 1 Blackburnian Warbler 1 Black-cheeked Warbler 1 Wilson's Warbler 1 Slate-throated Redstart 2 Blue-gray Tanager 2 Spangle-cheeked Tanager 5 Silver-throated Tanager 3 Yellow-faced Grassquit 1 Common Chlorospingus 15 approx Chestnut-capped Brushfinch 1 HO Rufous-collared Sparrow 3 Yellow-thighed Finch 3 Flame-colored Tanager 1 Lesser Goldfinch 4
Camino de la Divisoria Continental, Ngäbe-Buglé, PA Sep 24, 2017 9:15 AM - 12:45 PM Protocol: Traveling 11.0 kilometer(s) Comments: sunny 3 stops on the way 58 species (+2 other taxa) Black Vulture 30 soaring Turkey Vulture 4 Ornate Hawk-Eagle 1 + song soaring Barred Hawk 2 soaring Short-billed Pigeon 1 + song Groove-billed Ani 2 White-collared Swift 8 Vaux's Swift 6 approx Green Hermit 3 Long-billed Hermit 1 first time I see this bird in this area Green-fronted Lancebill 1 White-bellied Mountain-gem 1 Purple-throated Mountain-gem 1 Garden Emerald 2 Crowned Woodnymph 1 Black-cheeked Woodpecker 1 Barred Parakeet 14 + calls Silvery-fronted Tapaculo 1 HO Wedge-billed Woodcreeper 1 Strong-billed Woodcreeper 1 Spotted Woodcreeper 1 HO song Olive-striped Flycatcher 1 Paltry Tyrannulet 1 Scale-crested Pygmy-Tyrant 1 Tufted Flycatcher 1 Western Wood-Pewee 3 Eastern Wood-Pewee 1 Western/Eastern Wood-Pewee 2 Great Kiskadee 1 Tropical Kingbird 2 swallow sp. 4 Scaly-breasted Wren 2 HO House Wren 2 Stripe-breasted Wren 1 HO Gray-breasted Wood-Wren 1 HO Black-headed Nightingale-Thrush 1 HO song Swainson's Thrush 1 for sure it was a Swainson's Thrush Clay-colored Thrush 2 Tropical Parula 2 + song Bay-breasted Warbler 1 Blackburnian Warbler 4 Yellow-throated Warbler 1 lifer for me! no streaks on back. Black mask and white eyebrow ( superciliary) Costa Rican Warbler 1 Slate-throated Redstart 2 Crimson-collared Tanager 3 Passerini's Tanager 1 HO Blue-and-gold Tanager 1 Blue-gray Tanager 4 Golden-hooded Tanager 2 Bay-headed Tanager 3 Silver-throated Tanager 5 Blue-black Grassquit 2 Variable Seedeater 1 Bananaquit 2 Buff-throated Saltator 3 Common Chlorospingus 5 Black-striped Sparrow 2 Hepatic Tanager 1 Summer Tanager 1 Tawny-capped Euphonia 2 :
finca Potoo, Chiriquí, PA Sep 25, 2017 8:10 AM - 11:50 AM Comments: sun , around 11 am clouds came in... forest, scrubs, open meadow area 61 species (+1 other taxa) Little Tinamou 1 Cattle Egret 3 Black Vulture 5 Roadside Hawk 3 White-tipped Dove 1 Squirrel Cuckoo 1 Stripe-throated Hermit 1 Garden Emerald 1 Snowy-bellied Hummingbird 2 Rufous-tailed Hummingbird 2 Lineated Woodpecker 1 Brown-throated Parakeet 12 heard more Barred Antshrike 1 regular seen and heard in this area Slaty Antwren 1 Olivaceous Woodcreeper 1 + song Cocoa Woodcreeper 1 seen more in this area Streak-headed Woodcreeper 1 Pale-breasted Spinetail 1 Slaty-capped Flycatcher 1 Paltry Tyrannulet 1 Yellow-olive Flycatcher 2 Western Wood-Pewee 3 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 1 Empidonax sp. 1 look like Acadian Flycatcher , not sure... very sharp call repeating all the time, never heard that before Dusky-capped Flycatcher 2 Boat-billed Flycatcher 3 Lance-tailed Manakin 1 HO White-winged Becard 4 Rose-throated Becard 1 Lesser Greenlet 4 Black-chested Jay 1 HO Blue-and-white Swallow 4 approx House Wren 1 Rufous-breasted Wren 2 Rufous-and-white Wren 1 HO Isthmian Wren 2 Long-billed Gnatwren 1 Tropical Gnatcatcher 3 Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush 1 heard at least 2 more Clay-colored Thrush 1 White-throated Thrush 1 Rosy Thrush-Tanager 2 heard all over the place Black-and-white Warbler 2 Tropical Parula 2 + song Blackburnian Warbler 2 Rufous-capped Warbler 3 Costa Rican Warbler 5 Wilson's Warbler 2 Slate-throated Redstart 1 Crimson-backed Tanager 2 Blue-gray Tanager 2 Bay-headed Tanager 3 Silver-throated Tanager 1 Yellow-faced Grassquit 1 Buff-throated Saltator 3 Streaked Saltator 1 Black-striped Sparrow 2 Chestnut-capped Brushfinch 2 HO White-naped Brushfinch 4 Flame-colored Tanager 1 Red-crowned Ant-Tanager 3 Yellow-crowned Euphonia 2
Tinamou Cottage Boquete, Chiriquí, PA Sep 27, 2017 7:45 AM - 8:15 AM Comments: cloudy.. 5 minutes sun 41 species (+2 other taxa) Little Tinamou 1 HO Spotted Wood-Quail 1 HO Black Vulture 2 Roadside Hawk 1 + song Squirrel Cuckoo 1 Snowy-bellied Hummingbird 1 Rufous-tailed Hummingbird 2 Lesson's Motmot 1 Yellow-headed Caracara 1 Laughing Falcon 1 HO song Blue-headed Parrot 4 Brown-throated Parakeet 6 Cocoa Woodcreeper 1 HO call Streak-headed Woodcreeper 2 Yellow-bellied Elaenia 1 Yellow-olive Flycatcher 1 + song Western/Eastern Wood-Pewee 1 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 1 Boat-billed Flycatcher 2 Lance-tailed Manakin 1 Rufous-browed Peppershrike 2 HO+ song, answering eachother Red-eyed Vireo 1 Black-chested Jay 2 House Wren 1 Rufous-breasted Wren 2 Rufous-and-white Wren 1 Tropical Gnatcatcher 1 Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush 3 Clay-colored Thrush 1 White-throated Thrush 1 Rosy Thrush-Tanager 1 heard more songs all over Louisiana/Northern Waterthrush 1 too quick to ID Black-and-white Warbler 2 Blackburnian Warbler 1 Rufous-capped Warbler 1 Slate-throated Redstart 1 Blue-gray Tanager 2 Silver-throated Tanager 2 Buff-throated Saltator 2 White-naped Brushfinch 1 Flame-colored Tanager 1 Red-crowned Ant-Tanager 4 Thick-billed Euphonia 3
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Wednesday, September 6, 2017
just a link and pictures... later this week a story
I was just wondering about this...thinking a lot of the hurricane.. Irma...also because we have some friends and family living on st Martin...but I was thinking also of the birds... found this article.http://www.audubon.org/news/how-do-hurricanes-affect-birds
Later this week I have a nice story about tropical Gnatcatchers in our garden...
Greetings from Terry
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Just three pictures of my birding outing a couple of days ago and a nice sunset evening 3 days ago...and a lesson's Motmot checking me out through the office window yesterday....
Later this week I have a nice story about tropical Gnatcatchers in our garden...
Greetings from Terry
http://coffeeadventures.net/tinamou.html
Just three pictures of my birding outing a couple of days ago and a nice sunset evening 3 days ago...and a lesson's Motmot checking me out through the office window yesterday....
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