warm weather birding

Today another trip on 2 different places 1700 m and 1050 M...it became already very fast hot wheater and on the place where we were in the cloud forest was a broad winged Hawk busy hunting...does not help...anyway not a bad day ..blue sky out of the wind.. and birds hiding for their lives...
Interesting birds were today a least Flycatcher high up and a great blue Heron.

The list...
Cattle Egret
gray headed Chachalaca
black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
great tailed Grackle
great blue Heron!
broad winged Hawk
white tipped Dove
ruddy Ground Dove

brown throated Parakeet
Vaux's Swift
violet Sabrewing
green violet Ear
rufous tailed Hummingbird
snowy bellied Hummingbird
long billed Starthroat
white tailed Emerald
white throated mountain Gem
hairy Woodpecker
red faced Spinetail(nest)
gray breasted Wood Wren
paltry Tyrannulet
common tody Flycatcher
dark Pewee
least Flycatcher!
yellow throated Vireo
brown capped Vireo
Philadelphia Vireo
gray breasted Martin
black faced Solitair
clay colored Thrush
white throated Thrush in flight
Tennessee Warbler
flame throated Warbler
chestnut sided Warbler
black throated green Warbler
bay breasted Warbler
black and white Warbler
slate throated Warbler
Mourning Warbler
Wilson's Warbler
rufous capped Warbler
three striped Warbler
common bush Tanager
blue gray Tanager
silver throated Tanager
red legged Honeycreeper
buff throated Saltator
variable Seedeater (Female)
slaty Flowerpiercer
white winged Tanager
rose breasted Grosbeak (in flight)
thick billed Euphonia
yellow crowned Euphonia( nest)
elegant Euphonia
lesser Goldfinch


Terry van Niekerk  www.coffeeadventures.net