A day off...checking out Peg billed Finches and slaty Finches and much more....

This morning I was next to my bed at 5am...I had a day off..why do I do that to myself... well I wanted to be alone in the cloud forest and see birds... and only be responsible for only... myself...

A beautiful start...

But I had to hike more and faster then I am use too...yes I know ...bird watching is not hiking...but I did go faster, because my goal was to see Peg billed Finches and slaty Finches...the Bamboo is seeding and I did want to see them and observe them.. so from the ranger station in Alto Chiquero(1800 meters) to the Bamboo area (2250+ Meters).

I did start at 6.30am with black Guans and flying Quetzales  and around 8.30 am I did see my first slaty Finches, male and female

, they were very noisy and energetic..the hormones are in the air..( for a lot of birds).

I enjoyed my coffee and watched these Finches...I love their songs.

But for the seeding Bamboo I needed to climb up a little bit more, and after 10 minutes I did see the first peg billed Finch:

  

I counted 3 Females and 7 males

Singing...eating...flying around.

After taking also some movies and eating a part watermelon, I did return and took more time to see other nice birds and did keep an eye on the clouds, they came in already at 10.15am... nice mixed flocks and a very big mixed group of large footed Finches and chestnut capped brush Finches

And kind of early in the season I did hear already young blue throated Toucanets "screaming" out of a nest..I did find the parent sitting there...high up in the canopy.:

My list of today...

highland Tinamou (did see one , heard a lot)

black Guan (Start and at the end of my hike..then he was walking? across the trail)

spotted Wood Quail

black Vulture

swallow tailed Kites

broad winged Hawk

short tailed Hawk

black Hawk Eagle

band tailed Pigeon

Chiriqui Quail Dove

sulphur winged Parakeets

white collared Swifts

Vaux's Swifts

purple throated Mountain Gem male

orange bellied Trogon

resplendent Quetzales (4 males)

blue throated Toucanet

hairy Woodpecker

Acorn Woodpecker

red faced Spinetails

ruddy Treerunner

streak breasted Treehunter

lineated foliage Gleaner

silvery fronted Tapaculo

Mountain Elaenia

paltry Tyrannulet

dark Pewee

yellowish Flycatcher

black Phoebe

bright rumped Attila

barred Becard male making a nest

three wattled Bellbird

yellow winged Vireo

brown capped Vireo

rufous browed Peppershrike

silvery throated Jays

gray breasted Wood Wren

ruddy capped nightingale Thrush

black faced Solitair

clay colored Thrush

Mountain Thrush

tropical Mockingbird

long tailed silky Flycatcher

flame throated Warbler

slate throated Redstart

collared Redstart

Wilson's Warber(only migrant today...?)

black cheeked Warbler

common bush Tanager

sooty capped bush Tanager

spangle cheeked Tanager

yellow faced Grassquit

slaty Finch

peg billed Finch

slaty Flowerpiercer

yellow thighed Finch

large footed Finch

chestnut capped brush Finch

rufous collared Sparrow

eastern Meadowlark

Elegant Euphonia

Beautiful day!!

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