16 October 2015 birding cloud forest

a morning trip today with brand new birdwatchers and yes they are !
First time going out for birdwatching and a lot of patience and passion, great!
It was a cloudy morning and pretty "cold". We did stop at 2 spots, 1250 m and 1700 m
Comparing

with my last weeks of birding, it was slower then ever... but it was great for us, because we could observe the birds well , did have a few mixed flocks in the cloud forest, but that after 3 hours and the birders were used to the binoculars and finding the birds.
The black and white Warbler has a new name...zebra bird!
And on our way back nearby the Culebra trail, we had great views on a huge mixed group of different Swallows flying low over the ground..(before rain started). Very nice practice to ID Swallows
A great morning.

We did start with a nice Baltimore Oriole singing high up in a tree...

A nice black throated green Warbler...

On the way to the town...A female scintillant Hummingbird..first picture ..see the arrow...there she was sitting....

And so an other birding morning "flew by"

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The lists:

Bajo Mono, Chiriquí, PA
Oct 16, 2015 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM
Protocol: Traveling
0.1 kilometer(s)
Comments:     cloudy .."cold" 17 C
31 species

Black Vulture  4
Ruddy Ground-Dove  2
Squirrel Cuckoo  1
Rufous-tailed Hummingbird  1
Red-crowned Woodpecker  2
Yellow-headed Caracara  1
Streak-headed Woodcreeper  1
Common Tody-Flycatcher  1
Western Wood-Pewee  1
Tropical Kingbird  1
House Wren  1
Plain Wren  1
Clay-colored Thrush  1
Northern Waterthrush  1
Black-and-white Warbler  1
Blackburnian Warbler  1
Yellow Warbler  1
Cherrie's Tanager  4
Blue-gray Tanager  2
Silver-throated Tanager  3
Blue-black Grassquit  2
Variable Seedeater  2
Yellow-bellied Seedeater  1
Yellow-faced Grassquit  2
Buff-throated Saltator  3
Rufous-collared Sparrow  3
White-naped Brushfinch  2
Summer Tanager  1
Flame-colored Tanager  1
Baltimore Oriole  2
Yellow-bellied Siskin  2

Sendero Culebra, Chiriquí, PA
Oct 16, 2015 8:45 AM - 11:55 AM
Protocol: Traveling
0.2 kilometer(s)
Comments:     cloudy 16C ..after a long  night rain 
50 species

Black Vulture  5
Vaux's Swift  9
Green Violetear  1
White-throated Mountain-gem  2
Scintillant Hummingbird  2
Prong-billed Barbet  3
Hairy Woodpecker  1
Sulphur-winged Parakeet  7
Streak-headed Woodcreeper  2
Streak-breasted Treehunter  1     heard
Red-faced Spinetail  2
Mountain Elaenia  2
Torrent Tyrannulet  2
Paltry Tyrannulet  1
Eye-ringed Flatbill  1
Western Wood-Pewee  1
Yellow-winged Vireo  1
Brown-capped Vireo  1
Southern Rough-winged Swallow  3     probably more in a mixed group of Swallows..before rain, low over the ground, great views! very clear whitish band on rump
Barn Swallow  2     1 on the wire, and 1 in sky low over the ground, white spots on tail as a band in flight
Cliff Swallow  5     very clear ... buff forehead and orange/cinnamon throat
House Wren  1
Plain Wren  1
Gray-breasted Wood-Wren  X     heard
Black-faced Solitaire  2     heard
Ruddy-capped Nightingale-Thrush  1     heard
Mountain Thrush  1
Clay-colored Thrush  1
Tropical Mockingbird  2
Northern Waterthrush  1
Black-and-white Warbler  2
Tropical Parula  1
Bay-breasted Warbler  1
Blackburnian Warbler  1
Black-throated Green Warbler  1
Slate-throated Redstart  3
Blue-gray Tanager  2
Silver-throated Tanager  5
Blue-black Grassquit  2
Yellow-bellied Seedeater  1
Yellow-faced Grassquit  2
Common Chlorospingus  13
Chestnut-capped Brushfinch  1     heard
Rufous-collared Sparrow  2
Yellow-thighed Finch  2
White-naped Brushfinch  2
Summer Tanager  1
Flame-colored Tanager  1
Eastern Meadowlark  2     heard
Lesser Goldfinch  1