Wednesday, October 23, 2019

23th of October 2019 sendero los Quetzales

Hello everybody, today I was birdwatching on the Quetzal trail, yes we did see a Quetzal and much more.
Still we did see some immatures from silver throated Tanagers and rufous collared Sparrows. I took a cute picture of them that I love to share on my blog with you....



It was a good day...here is the list...Highland Tinamou  1     HO
Spotted Wood-Quail  X     HO songs
Ruddy Ground Dove  3
White-collared Swift  20     approx
Purple-throated Mountain-gem  3     2 female purple or white throated.....
White-throated Mountain-gem  1
Scintillant Hummingbird  1
Violet Sabrewing  1     HO
Black Vulture  2
Resplendent Quetzal  1
Red-headed Barbet  1
Prong-billed Barbet  4
Acorn Woodpecker  1     HO
Barred Parakeet  X     fly over HO
Sulphur-winged Parakeet  X     HO
Crimson-fronted Parakeet  50     approx, big groups flew over
Silvery-fronted Tapaculo  2     HO
Spot-crowned Woodcreeper  1
Lineated Foliage-gleaner  1
Ruddy Treerunner  1
Red-faced Spinetail  2
Barred Becard  1
Olive-striped Flycatcher  1
Mountain Elaenia  2
Mistletoe Tyrannulet  1
Tufted Flycatcher  2
Dark Pewee  1
Yellowish Flycatcher  1
Bright-rumped Attila  1     HO
Rufous-browed Peppershrike  1     HO
Yellow-winged Vireo  2
Brown-capped Vireo  4
Ochraceous Wren  2
Gray-breasted Wood-Wren  2     heard more calls and songs
Black-faced Solitaire  2     heard more songs
Slaty-backed Nightingale-Thrush  2     HO song
Ruddy-capped Nightingale-Thrush  1     HO
Swainson's Thrush  4
Mountain Thrush  1
Clay-colored Thrush  1
Long-tailed Silky-flycatcher  1     HO
Golden-browed Chlorophonia  1     HO
Elegant Euphonia  1
Yellow-bellied Siskin  X     HO
Common Chlorospingus  5     (common bush Tanager)
Costa Rican Brushfinch  2
Rufous-collared Sparrow  7     approx
White-naped Brushfinch  1
Yellow-thighed Brushfinch  5
Golden-winged Warbler  2
Black-and-white Warbler  2
Flame-throated Warbler  2
Blackburnian Warbler  5
Black-cheeked Warbler  3     approx
Costa Rican Warbler  2     ( 3 striped Warbler)
Wilson's Warbler  3
Slate-throated Redstart  X
Collared Redstart  3
Flame-colored Tanager  1     HO
Black-thighed Grosbeak  1
Spangle-cheeked Tanager  3
Silver-throated Tanager  X

The birdwatcher who joined me is participating in the meeting of the western shorebird group in Panama city the coming 4 days(organized by Audubon Panama)... a lot of people from all over the world (including Holland) are coming. Unfortunately we have work, love to  participate ... I can see on the E-bird lists that there are a lot of birdwatchers in Panama city as we speak...and of course they take advantage to spot some great birds...good time to be in Panama to see the birds!!! 

Last Saturday it was the big day (E-bird)
...in Panama not so popular as in May, but we did good. Hans and I did go to the Palo seco reserve, did see nice birds, it was also great weather. Still have 3 calls of birds...that we heard, but not ID yet. I did ask other birdwatchers...but they don't know it also ... did listen on internet a lot to calls... well I don't give up...
crimson collared Tanager
broad winged Hawk
black cheeked Woodpecker female
lineated Foliage-gleaner

Here are the lists of last Saturday:
Tinamou Cottage Boquete, Chiriquí, PA
Oct 19, 2019 5:40 AM
Protocol: Incidental
2 species

Little Tinamou  1     Heard only
Spotted Wood-Quail  1     heard only
Tinamou Cottage Boquete, Chiriquí, PA
Oct 19, 2019 5:55 AM - 6:25 AM
Protocol: Traveling
0.1 kilometer(s)
Checklist Comments:     stable garden coffee farm meadow..cloudy
43 species

Little Tinamou  X     HO
Gray-headed Chachalaca  X     HO
Spotted Wood-Quail  X     HO
White-tipped Dove  1
Squirrel Cuckoo  1
Rufous-tailed Hummingbird  2
Gray-cowled Wood-Rail  1     HO
Cattle Egret  5
Lesson's Motmot  2
Red-crowned Woodpecker  1
Lineated Woodpecker  1
Yellow-headed Caracara  1
Lance-tailed Manakin  1     HO
Lesser Elaenia  1     HO
Mistletoe Tyrannulet  1     HO
Boat-billed Flycatcher  2
Tropical Kingbird  1     HO
Black-chested Jay  2
Rufous-breasted Wren  1     HO
Rufous-and-white Wren  1
Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush  2     HO
Swainson's Thrush  1
Clay-colored Thrush  3
Yellow-crowned Euphonia  1     HO
Thick-billed Euphonia  3
Rosy Thrush-Tanager  1     HO
Black-striped Sparrow  1
White-naped Brushfinch  2
Baltimore Oriole  1
Black-and-white Warbler  1
American Redstart  1
Blackburnian Warbler  1
Rufous-capped Warbler  2
Summer Tanager  1
Flame-colored Tanager  1
Red-crowned Ant-Tanager  X     HO
Crimson-backed Tanager  1
Blue-gray Tanager  2
Palm Tanager  2
Silver-throated Tanager  2
Red-legged Honeycreeper  2
Yellow-faced Grassquit  1
Buff-throated Saltator  2

alto Boquete, Chiriquí, PA
Oct 19, 2019 6:50 AM
Protocol: Incidental
Checklist Comments:     from car
1 species

White-winged Dove  1     common in this area




Camino de la Divisoria Continental, Ngäbe-Buglé, PA
Oct 19, 2019 8:25 AM - 1:05 PM
Protocol: Traveling
11.0 kilometer(s)
Checklist Comments:     several stops 1250 m to 750 m partly clouds, 3 different songs not 100% ID yet
86 species (+4 other taxa)

Black-breasted Wood-Quail  1     immature or molting , feathers were not fully developed
Short-billed Pigeon  1
Groove-billed Ani  4
Green Hermit  1
Green Thorntail  1
White-bellied Mountain-gem  1
hummingbird sp.  2     chasing each other too fast for ID
Magnificent Frigatebird  1
Black Vulture  7
Ornate Hawk-Eagle  1
White Hawk  2
Broad-winged Hawk  3
Short-tailed Hawk  1     dark Morph + song (sound will follow)
Broad-billed Motmot  1
Keel-billed Toucan  2
Black-cheeked Woodpecker  1
Barred Parakeet  6     2 groups flew over , 1 group only heard, second group seen
Fasciated Antshrike  1
Russet Antshrike  1     HO
Dusky Antbird  1
Zeledon's Antbird  1
Silvery-fronted Tapaculo  1     HO
Long-tailed Woodcreeper  1
Wedge-billed Woodcreeper  1
Lineated Foliage-gleaner  1
Red-faced Spinetail  1
Ochre-bellied Flycatcher  1
Slaty-capped Flycatcher  1
Rufous-browed Tyrannulet  1     in mixed flock
Scale-crested Pygmy-Tyrant  1
Common Tody-Flycatcher  1
Mistletoe Tyrannulet  1
Tufted Flycatcher  1
Eastern Wood-Pewee  3
Western/Eastern Wood-Pewee  2
Empidonax sp.  1
Dusky-capped Flycatcher  1
Great Kiskadee  1
Boat-billed Flycatcher  1
Tropical Kingbird  2
Red-eyed Vireo  2
swallow sp.  X
Long-billed Gnatwren  1
Tropical Gnatcatcher  2
House Wren  2
Ochraceous Wren  1     HO song
Band-backed Wren  3
Stripe-breasted Wren  1
Gray-breasted Wood-Wren  X     HO songs
Slaty-backed Nightingale-Thrush  1     + song
Black-headed Nightingale-Thrush  1
Swainson's Thrush  5
Pale-vented Thrush  4
Clay-colored Thrush  1
Yellow-crowned Euphonia  3     heard more
White-vented Euphonia  2
Tawny-capped Euphonia  2     2 males singing
Yellow-throated Chlorospingus  2
Ashy-throated Chlorospingus  3
Common Chlorospingus  2
Black-striped Sparrow  1
Costa Rican Brushfinch  1
Baltimore Oriole  1
Tennessee Warbler  3
Mourning Warbler  1
Olive-crowned Yellowthroat  1     + song
Tropical Parula  1
Blackburnian Warbler  5
Buff-rumped Warbler  1     HO
Canada Warbler  1
Slate-throated Redstart  2
Hepatic Tanager  2
Summer Tanager  1
Rose-breasted Grosbeak  3
Blue-black Grosbeak  1
Crimson-collared Tanager  3
Scarlet-rumped Tanager (Passerini's)  7
Blue-gray Tanager  4
Palm Tanager  2
Golden-hooded Tanager  2
Plain-colored Tanager  2
Silver-throated Tanager  4
Scarlet-thighed Dacnis  2
Blue Dacnis  1
Green Honeycreeper  2
Blue-black Grassquit  1
Variable Seedeater  3
Slate-colored Seedeater  1
Bananaquit  2
Slate-colored Grosbeak  1

Fortuna forest reserve, Chiriquí, PA
Oct 19, 2019 1:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Protocol: Stationary
Checklist Comments:     clouds came in, before rain
17 species (+1 other taxa)

White-tipped Dove  1
Squirrel Cuckoo  1
Black Vulture  3
Red-crowned Woodpecker  1
Yellow-headed Caracara  1
Common Tody-Flycatcher  1
Western/Eastern Wood-Pewee  1
Tropical Kingbird  1
Scaly-breasted Wren  1     HO song
Swainson's Thrush  2
Yellow-crowned Euphonia  1     HO
Eastern Meadowlark  2
Tennessee Warbler  4
Blackburnian Warbler  1
Rufous-capped Warbler  1
Blue-gray Tanager  2
Silver-throated Tanager  2
Buff-throated Saltator  5

In the morning when we were on our way ... the volcano (Baru) was very clear
when we came back in Boquete, there was a tropical storm and no birding anymore  for this day..so nice a well-deserved chocolate milk and pastry and making my bird lists 👍

Greetings from Terry




Thursday, October 10, 2019

the last couple of weeks

10 October 2019

Hello everybody, we are living the peak of the wet season... only the mud where the horses (and me) are having their most steps are not fun, but this month is one of my favorites because of the activity in nature. Migration birds are coming through, some are singing and a lot of twinkling calls of Warblers in the forest, meadow, garden, coffee farm. My ears(and eyes) are constantly open .. Yesterday the first Tennessee Warbler..only one... blackburnian Warblers, black and white Warblers, scarlet Tanagers, Summer Tanagers, Wilson's Warblers, American Redstarts, Northern Waterthrush, Baltimore Orioles.. more will follow...yes and yesterday a nice Townsend's Warbler..not a lifer for me, but a new bird on our farm...
Yesterday I still did see just fledged immatures of Palm Tanagers and buff throated Saltators . 
Two days ago Hans and I checked out some wetland birds in the rice fields in David, not too much, we were early in the afternoon. Some greater (picture) and lesser Yellowlegs and bigger amounts of black necked Stilts
Did see a nice family of Savanna Hawks (immature on the left)
and always there is the great Egret:

Next to the jobs around the house and in the house(always something to do!) we did have guests.And I did have birding trips. Youngest birdwatcher ever... 4 years old:
Every day I check the birds on our farm and  a few times I did go out alone, but it is hard to leave the farm, so much is happening here.
Here some pictures that I took in the garden... every day I do see now the crimson backed Tanagers, that is since a half year a official new bird on the farm...

red legged Honeycreeper female



Another new bird...no picture yet, is the southern beardless Tyrannulet, he is now two weeks very busy on the farm, specially the meadow and forest edges. 
The meadow birds did change over the years, more and more we get birds that we never did see in the meadow before... tropical Kingbird,Panama Flycatcher, not always..but great Kiskadee regular visitor. Common tody Flycatcher...since a few years. Regular ask question is of course, do you notice changes in birds on the farm? ( climate change)
Well I can say now, yes I do , specially when I am standing in the meadow and now with the song of the southern beardless Tyrannulet I feel sometimes like I am in Caldera on the 900 meters... 

Well time to go outside... until next time...down below my fast birders lunch when I was in Caldera last week to check out some birds there on my own... never have time or patience to eat then, there is always a bird flying by...well birdwatchers know how that works 😉

Greetings from Terry