Terry's Boquete Bird stories
A birdwatcher who lives in Boquete, Panama, since 1998, likes to tell her bird stories
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
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
A vermilion Flycatcher in a nest of pair of fork tailed Flycatchers.......
Saturday, April 12, 2025
Vermilion Flycatcher..female, a new bird for me in Panama
Monday, March 31, 2025
Hawk migration this morning..last day of March 2025
This morning we did see a HUGE Hawk migration...a HUGE kettle of mainly Mississippi Kites and Swainson's Hawks. This was the biggest spring migration ever that I did see in the 27 years that we are in Boquete in Panama. It went on and on for at least an hour!
Sunday, March 30, 2025
March 2025 almost done....
Yes ..hello and goodbye March 2025... this month did go by so quick, unbelievable. Not too much hot days and even in between some nice rain showers! Super!
Hawk migration started and also more and more migration Warblers/Tanagers are coming through. The first soft songs and calls from the Swainson's Thrushes we can hear and the eastern and western Wood Pewees are coming through with their songs and calls.
Today I did see a male chestnut sided Warbler in almost complete summer plumage singing his song...of course we don't hear that a lot here, so that was great.
I was in March in a lot of different habitats and provinces... so a good variation of birds. Alone or with other birdwatchers.
In the beginning of March I did see quite a bit of nests of hummingbirds, the lesser violetears are making nest in banks..when you pay a bit attention, you will find them. I zoomed in...this one was almost ready to fly out and yes that happend, because 2 days later he was gone. So I was lucky.
