Today I did see and heard the Costan Rican Pygmy- Owl 20 September 2019

Hello everybody, yesterday I was again checking out birds in the rice fields and this morning I was suddenly very motivated to check out the cloud forest birds.
So Spot (the birding dog) and me were up early and up we went...
The sky was blue, no clouds ...no wind...
I stepped out of the car and there I did see a nice black burnian Warbler...
After that a Wilson's Warbler..then a white throated Mountain Gem female and there I did hear the song of a Costa Rican Pygmy-Owl . I walked into dense forest and checked out the trees ... I did found him. First even higher in the tree. Fortunately he came down a bit, so I could see him even better. After checking him out with my Binoculars ..I thought oh maybe nice to take a picture. That was hard to get him sharp. As most of you know now...I am not the best picture taken person in the world. But as you see... I even took a video.
And here some pictures...

Pygmy Owls are totally cute!

Still the three wattled Bellbirds are all around and resplendent Quetzales  too. A lot of fruit (Bambito) is present.You can see around this female Quetzal the fruit...

It is a weird season with the fruit...also on our farm we have a lot of Guava beans hanging in the trees...normally the white faced Capuchin Monkeys  ( and Kinkajous) eat them all, mostly in June July and August. This year they showed up only to play on the roofs off the cottages...but not to eat the Guava beans.. there is so much food for them. I never did see so much "fat" beans on the trees. This afternoon they were eating the beans...but not for long.

I wonder how it will be next breeding season(Febr.- July) with the fruit for Quetzales and  three wattled Bellbirds....

Well I come back to that next year.

It was a good morning.. me and Spot had a good time! Such a good birding dog!

 Down below the list of this morning...more lists of the former days on E-bird
                                              Greetings  from Terry
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 private property 1900 m altitude, Chiriquí, PA
Sep 20, 2019 7:50 AM - 11:10 AM
Protocol: Traveling
0.5 kilometer(s)
Comments:     sun , last half hour clouds came in
56 species

Highland Tinamou  1     HO
Band-tailed Pigeon  5
White-tipped Dove  1
Chiriqui Quail-Dove  1
White-collared Swift  1
Lesser Violetear  4     4 seen heard more songs
White-throated Mountain-gem  2
Scintillant Hummingbird  2
Violet Sabrewing  5
Stripe-tailed Hummingbird  1
White-tailed Emerald  2
Black Vulture  2
Ornate Hawk-Eagle  1     soaring + song
Red-tailed Hawk  1 (immature)

Costa Rican Pygmy-Owl  1 
Resplendent Quetzal  2
Northern Emerald-Toucanet  1
Acorn Woodpecker  7
Hairy Woodpecker  2
Barred Parakeet  X     HO flew over
Silvery-fronted Tapaculo  1     HO
Spot-crowned Woodcreeper  1
Lineated Foliage-gleaner  1
Three-wattled Bellbird  5     heard more , all over.. 2 young males were chasing each other too far  for picture..still loads of food for them, unusual for this time of year
Barred Becard  1
Mountain Elaenia  6
Dark Pewee  2

Eastern Wood-Pewee  1
Yellowish Flycatcher  3
Rufous-browed Peppershrike  1     + song
Brown-capped Vireo  2
Ochraceous Wren  2
Gray-breasted Wood-Wren  3
Black-faced Solitaire  2     + song
Ruddy-capped Nightingale-Thrush  1     HO call
Swainson's Thrush  2     first ones this season
Mountain Thrush  2
White-throated Thrush  5     together in a berry tree, very high up for this Thrush (1900 m)
Golden-browed Chlorophonia  3
Elegant Euphonia  3
Yellow-bellied Siskin  6
Rosy Thrush-Tanager  1     HO
Common Chlorospingus  2
Chestnut-capped Brushfinch  4
Rufous-collared Sparrow  2
White-naped Brushfinch  1
golden crowned Warbler 2
Black-and-white Warbler  1
Flame-throated Warbler  2

Blackburnian Warbler  1
Black-cheeked Warbler  5
Wilson's Warbler  7
Slate-throated Redstart  2
Flame-colored Tanager  4
Silver-throated Tanager  3
Yellow-faced Grassquit  3
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