birding in Boquete ...a nice post of two ex birder guests and a note about booking sites

Hello All, we did have quit a bit of birdwatchers lately as guests, always great to see people walking around  with their binoculars or see them enjoying our cottages...
Two birdwatchers  did post a story about Boquete and yes... Tinamou cottage, so I like to share the link to their blog post:
https://albicillaexplorer.com/en/birding-boquete-quetzals-becard-christmas-traffic/#comment-458

When you do read their post , you will read that they did find the bird nr. 200 on our farm list...a rose throated Becard...female. I did see the bird also a couple of weeks later and 2 days ago in front of our balcony in the garden...I took a fast picture!

By the way.... sometimes we hear from guests...heeee you are not mentioned as a tour company on 

tripadvisor ... or heee...you are not on booking.com

O.K. that is correct.

I think we are the only ones in Boquete who are not active with these kind of sites. Guest put us on Tripadvisor, that was not our initiative. Friendly when they post a review, but we don't ask for it. We don't want to bother people to do that. Mostly the guests who stay in our Tinamou cottages are very hard working people and have a busy life. We think it is not nice to ask to write a review, while they are on vacation. 

Booking sites...we like to be our own boss... simple as that. Hans is the webmaster of our website and we are still in some travel books...

A lot of companies don't understand us at all...well we are very happy with our approach and love our life and work here in Panama. And of course we are totally happy when we get a nice review  and sweet mails and that nice post where I was starting with ...

Thank you and greetings  from Terry

http://coffeeadventures.net/tinamou.html

                            snowy bellied Hummingbird yesterday in the forest of Tinamou cottage

and a nice Baltimore Oriole

ruta sur ..connection Boquete to Volcan area ..almost ready...casi listo

I remember as the day of yesterday.. the goverment of president Mireya Moscoso (1999-2004) did have an idea to make a connection with Boquete to Volcan /Cerro punta ..to make a road on the sendero los Quetzales . They did give it the name "camino Ecologico" In that time I was guiding tourists also on the sendero and did see 3 x surveys and that was heart breaking.... People with machetes were making space and put metal nails in the soil...while Quetzales were flying above them in March 2003 (last survey). I got questions about this, I did not want to spoil the hike/birding ...but you can understand, people got upset. In that time I was even wondering if Panama was the country that I wanted to live in...We did have a lot of meetings in that time with people for and against this road. Protests in green clothing... there was an alternative... ruta sur... Why not? it would help more communities, ... and you will safe the sendero los Quetzales in "national park Volcan Baru"!! After a big battle the protesters..young and old Panamanians .. won... and see here in my small video the result...the connection is a fact ...ruta sur is a fact... bravo! Greetings Terry van Niekerk
www.coffeeadventures.net/tinamoucottage

http://www.mop.gob.pa/progresa-proyecto-ruta-sur-en-potrerillo-arriba-palmira-abajo/

Veraguan Mango nest with 2 immatures

Hello all, this video starts with a photo of the female Veraguan Mango, she did start to build her nest 13th of December 2018, she was on the nest the 27th of December and today 24th of January 2019.. we did visit again and 2 immatures are on the nest and they will fly very soon...well done!!

Hans and I had a great day off in the forest today!! That was nice because there it was nice and cooler...on our way back we had temperatures of 37 C (Caldera) , very hot day. 😬

greetings from Terry
http://coffeeadventures.net/tinamou.html

The list of today:

Fortuna forest reserve, Chiriquí, PA
Jan 24, 2019 
Comments:  warm sun wind


Squirrel Cuckoo  1
White-collared Swift  7
Green Hermit  1
Purple-throated Mountain-gem  1
White-throated Mountain-gem  1
White-tailed Emerald  3
Snowy-bellied Hummingbird  1
Rufous-tailed Hummingbird  1
Turkey Vulture  2
Broad-winged Hawk  1
Orange-bellied Trogon  1
Sulphur-winged Parakeet  X     HO , could not see them ...in forest
Russet Antshrike  1     picture failed... it was too dark. Together with a small mixed flock...heard song, thought first it was a foliage gleaner, then  we did see him well with binoculars and did heard him first with song
Plain Antvireo  2

Slaty Antwren  1
Bicolored Antbird  2     HO calls
Silvery-fronted Tapaculo  1     HO
Streak-headed Woodcreeper  1
Yellow-bellied Elaenia  1
Olive-striped Flycatcher  1     + song
Slaty-capped Flycatcher  1
Scale-crested Pygmy-Tyrant  2
Eye-ringed Flatbill  1     + song
Bran-colored Flycatcher  1
Tufted Flycatcher  1
Dusky-capped Flycatcher  1
Boat-billed Flycatcher  2
Social Flycatcher  1
Tropical Kingbird  1
Lesser Greenlet  2
Yellow-throated Vireo  1
Philadelphia Vireo  2
House Wren  1
Ochraceous Wren  1     HO
Rufous-breasted Wren  1     HO
Rufous-and-white Wren  1
Gray-breasted Wood-Wren  2     more , heard more songs
Black-faced Solitaire  1     HO
White-throated Thrush  3
Clay-colored Thrush  1
Golden-browed Chlorophonia  X     HO
Tawny-capped Euphonia  3
Black-and-white Warbler  2
Tennessee Warbler  3
Tropical Parula  2
Blackburnian Warbler  1
Rufous-capped Warbler  1
Slate-throated Redstart  2
Hepatic Tanager  1
Flame-colored Tanager  1
White-winged Tanager  4
Blue-gray Tanager  2
Silver-throated Tanager  2
Yellow-faced Grassquit  3
Buff-throated Saltator  3

golden winged Warbler male fouraging

Today in the cloud forest this cute golden winged Warbler

Greetings from Terry

http://coffeeadventures.net/tinamou.html

Sunday morning hike ..masked Duck and a nice Tiger Rat Snake

Yes a nice quiet Sunday morning  and a good hike... very good to do that , because I did a lot of birdwatching lately and well... not too much hiking involved as a lot of readers know...and I know I have  trips of a day birding hikes on the sendero los Quetzales in February...so it's good to shape up a bit!! Of course I did have my camera and my binoculars with me, so we could spot very nicely the masked Ducks (this time 2 females and 3 males) and more birds and a nice Tiger Rat Snake..  great morning!!Of course down below the bird list... Greetings from Terry

http://coffeeadventures.net/tinamou.html

lucero golf course la Estrella, Boquete, Chiriquí, PA
Jan 20, 2019 7:25 AM - 9:20 AM
Protocol: Historical
Comments:     sun, some wind   
40 species

Little Tinamou  1     HO (heard only)
Masked Duck  5    
Ruddy Ground-Dove  7
White-tipped Dove  2
Gray-chested Dove  1
Snowy-bellied Hummingbird  X
Rufous-tailed Hummingbird  X
Common Gallinule  2
Green Heron  1
Black Vulture  2
White-tailed Kite  3
Roadside Hawk  1
Red-crowned Woodpecker  1
Yellow-headed Caracara  3
Orange-chinned Parakeet  12     approx
Yellow-crowned Tyrannulet  1     heard song
Yellow-bellied Elaenia  1
Yellow-olive Flycatcher  1     HO
Black Phoebe  3
Boat-billed Flycatcher  2
Gray-capped Flycatcher  2
Tropical Kingbird  4
Fork-tailed Flycatcher  2
Scrub Greenlet  1     HO song
Blue-and-white Swallow  X
Isthmian Wren  1
Clay-colored Thrush  2
Tropical Mockingbird  5
Thick-billed Euphonia  2
Lesser Goldfinch  2
Black-striped Sparrow  2
Crested Oropendola  5
Great-tailed Grackle  2
Tennessee Warbler  2
Rufous-capped Warbler  1     HO
Crimson-backed Tanager  5      this area is nearby Caldera , where we do see them all the time
Blue-gray Tanager  2
Red-legged Honeycreeper  1
Blue-black Grassquit  6
Yellow-faced Grassquit  2

horse man and birds...day off!

Today we did have a day off, first breakfast in David and then sitting on a river, watch some birds and just relax!

Greetings  from Terry

http://coffeeadventures.net/tinamou.html
 list of today:

David, Chiriquí, PA
Jan 13, 2019 10:15 AM - 11:35 AM
Protocol: Stationary
Comments:     sun breeze 30C
36 species

Pale-vented Pigeon  1
Ruddy Ground-Dove  4
Smooth-billed Ani  1
Black-necked Stilt  1
Southern Lapwing  8
Northern Jacana  1
Spotted Sandpiper  3
Great Egret  2
Snowy Egret  1
Turkey Vulture  2
Osprey  1
Roadside Hawk  1
Amazon Kingfisher  1
Red-crowned Woodpecker  1
Yellow-headed Caracara  1
Orange-chinned Parakeet  2
Brown-throated Parakeet  6
Southern Beardless-Tyrannulet  1     + song
Mouse-colored Tyrannulet  1     + song
Great Kiskadee  2
Social Flycatcher  2
Tropical Kingbird  3
Philadelphia Vireo  1
Mangrove Swallow  1
Rufous-and-white Wren  1     HO song
Yellow-crowned Euphonia  1
Eastern Meadowlark  2
Yellow-billed Cacique  1
Baltimore Oriole  2
Melodious Blackbird  1     for 100% sure ID and with song
Great-tailed Grackle  5
Prothonotary Warbler  1
Yellow Warbler  1
Blue-gray Tanager  2
Blue-black Grassquit  5
Bananaquit  1

thick billed Euphonia imitates just to listen

This thick billed Euphonia female is imitating other birds...you don't see the bird but just listen.... you can hear what kind of other birds are on our farm lately... mimic:... call streaked Saltator, Summer Tanager, snowy bellied Hummingbird, rufous breasted Wren, tropical Kingbird, rufous tailed Hummingbird, call of a clay colored Thrush, flame colored Tanager, social Flycatcher

Greetings  from Terry

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Masked Ducks on the Golf course in Boquete

This afternoon on the 4th of January 2019, we had time to check out the small lake on the Lucero Golf course in la Estrella , Boquete.
I did go birding  there with Colleen Lal , when she and her husband Raideep (big golfer) purchase the property and then it was forest , streams and mainly meadows....
We did have Barbeques in the night on the lakes and enjoyed the silent, starry skies.
They were good friends.
They had a vision of a golf course.. where nature will be also playing an important part. Keep the forest areas and streams and keep the nice trees, new trees will be only the trees who are belong there.
Unfortunately they both passed away on a very young age. We still miss them and until now we only went to Lucero to visit friends and the restaurant for 2 x. Never did go into the area  anymore, too sad.                                      Raideep and Colleen:

But today we did go...we walked to the lake and we did see masked Ducks and other birds (see list down below)

We did love our walk, talked about the good memories and we think that Raideep and Colleen  would be happy with the golf course. And they would be absolutely happy with  these rare beautiful Ducks.
We felt so happy and I wanted to write this down on my blog..out of honor for them.
Down below the list.
Here some pics of the beautiful area...

Greetings from Terry

www.coffeeadventures.net
http://coffeeadventures.net/tinamou.html

lucero golf course la Estrella, Boquete, Chiriquí, PA
Jan 4, 2019 4:25 PM - 6:25 PM
Protocol: Traveling
2.0 kilometer(s)
Comments:     sunny , some breeze
33 species

Little Tinamou  1     HO (heard only)
Masked Duck  4
Pied-billed Grebe  5
White-tipped Dove  2
Snowy-bellied Hummingbird  7     approx
Rufous-tailed Hummingbird  4     approx
Common Gallinule  2
Southern Lapwing  4
Northern Jacana  5
Spotted Sandpiper  2
Black Vulture  2
Turkey Vulture  1
White-tailed Kite  1
Roadside Hawk  2

striped Cuckoo 1 + song
Red-crowned Woodpecker  2
Yellow-headed Caracara  2
Yellow-bellied Elaenia  2
Social Flycatcher  1
Tropical Kingbird  4
Philadelphia Vireo  1
House Wren  2
Rufous-breasted Wren  1     HO
Rufous-and-white Wren  1     HO
Clay-colored Thrush  2
Lesser Goldfinch  2
Crested Oropendola  1
Great-tailed Grackle  5
Tennessee Warbler  1
Summer Tanager  1
Blue-gray Tanager  2
Red-legged Honeycreeper  6
Blue-black Grassquit  2
Yellow-faced Grassquit  3