20th of November 2013

Birding day with dear friends, was a fun day.

Nice sunny, cloudy moments, no wind no rain. Boquete area around the 1150 M.
We had some ?  birds, one I have to find out... it was a Tyrannulet, but I am having doubts still, so I have to read more.
We thought we had a rare new bird , but thanks to my zoom on the camera we di find out that it was not a rare new Flycatcher , catching flies , but a female violet Sabrewing...

And a nice Bat Falcon...close to our farm.

 

Bird list... A means afternoon on our farm

gray headed Chachalaca (A)

cattle Egret

black Vulture

broad winged Hawk

yellow headed Caracara

Bat Falcon

white tipped Dove (A)

sulphur winged Parakeet

blue headed Parrot(A)

Mottled Owl (A)

common  Pauraque (A) a lot

green violet Ear (A) making their sound since a week ...summertime

violet Sabrewing

rufous tailed Hummingbird(A)

snowy bellied Hummingbird (A) and in the morning

Violacious Trogon (A)

blue crowned Motmot (A)

red crowned Woodpecker (A)  and in the morning

lineated Woodpecker(A)

paltry Tyrannulet

dark Pewee

boat billed Flycatcher

tropical Kingbird

lance tailed Manakin(A)

lesser Greenlet(A)

rufous breasted Wren(A)

tropical Gnatcatcher(A)

orange billed nightingale Thrush (A) and in the morning

clay colored Thrush (A)

white throated Thrush(A)

tropical Mockingbird

golden winged Warbler

Tennessee Warbler

chestnut sided Warbler

black and white Warbler(A)

American Redstart(A)

rufous capped Warbler

rosy Thrush Tanager (A)

gray headed Tanager(A)

blue gray Tanager

silver throated Tanager(A) and in the morning

bay headed Tanager (A) and in the morning

red legged Honeycreeper

buff throated Saltator (A) and in the morning

lesser Goldfinch

black striped Sparrow

Summer Tanager(A) and in the morning

white winged Tanager

red crowned Ant Tanager

great tailed Grackle

Baltimore Oriole(A)

yellow billed Cacique

yellow throated Euphonia

thick billed Euphonia (A)

 

 

 

 

Bird list 19th of November 2013 Sendero los Quetzales

Bird list 19th of November 2013 Sendero los Quetzales , Boquete.(and a little bit on the road...) windy, sunny a little bit bajareque.
black Vulture
gray Hawk
broad winged Hawk
Bat Falcon
white tipped Dove
sulphur winged Parakeet
white throated Mountain Gem
scintillant Hummingbird
prong billed Barbet
blue throated Toucanet
Acorn Woodpecker
red faced Spinetail
spotted Barbtail
ruddy Treerunner
Streak breasted Tree hunter
lineated Foliage cleaner
silvery fronted Tapaculo...fast
mountain Elaenia
tufted Flycatcher
dark Pewee
yellowish Flycatcher
black Phoebe
tropical Mockingbird
Tropical Kingbird
yellow winged Vireo
gray breasted Wood Wren
ruddy capped nightingale Thrush
Mountain Thrush
black faced Solitair
black and yellow silky Flycatcher
chestnut sided Warbler
flame throated Warbler
black throated green Warbler
slate throated Redstart
collared Redstart
Wilson's Warbler
black cheeked Warbler
common bush Tanager
sooty capped bush Tanager
silver throated Tanager
bay headed Tanager(Farm)
white naped brush Finch
rufous collared Sparrow
Summer Tanager female
flame colored Tanager
golden browed Chlorophonia
lesser Goldfinch in flight

beautiful red and an update of our bird list

In Holland we have an expression..beautiful red is not ugly...well it is so through.
This nice white winged Tanager was greetings us while we had our morning coffee.

And today I did make an update of my bird list of the farm, 3 new birds ..Townsend's Warbler
black and white Becard and the Louisiana Waterthrush a few weeks ago.. that makes 178 different spieces of birds through the whole year, not bad at all.
http://www.coffeeadventures.net/bird_list.html

on the farm

It is quiet with the trips, all bird watchers are still at home, waiting for Christmas and then ...Panama. They miss a lot though, because Panama is really cool now with the birds... a lot of berries and other food , lot of migration still!! A lot of birds around us.
In between painting scrubbing wood working in the cottages, making them ready for the very soon coming season, I am out of my bed very early to check the birds on our farm. We have now the little red berries with load of birds in it.
Two new comers on our farm slaty capped Flycatcher and the Louisiana Water thrush.
I never saw so many Oven birds on the farm and out side the farm...why is that?
Today  was "the red berry tree" full with Tennessee Warblers , Philadelphia Vireo's , clay colored Thrushes, white throated Thrushes, red headed Woodpeckers, bay headed Tanagers, silver throated Tanagers. I did count  7 lance tailed Manakins, together in an argument about the berries/territory...OMG they are acting like people . A male violacious Trogon was sitting in the tree, and the two Motmot Friends where wooping along on their branch. A rufous breasted Wren and rufous and white Wren were eating insects from dead leaves.
Two fighting Summer Tanagers, a lonely male American Redstart and 2 Wilson's Warblers and a black and white Warbler and 2 Squirrel Cuckoo's .In the little kreek a nice buff rumped Warbler.
Thick billed Euphonia's also in the berry tree, but also on the feeder...nice picture of them and in front of our house a nice Lineated Woodpecker...

Two days ago I did found a new great birding spot, a lot of birds, but I did come home and did see more birds at our place. Our farm is really more and more very birdy! Our forest is really a forest now, get more and more forest birds...the meadow's are great with the dead trees areas, the flower trees and berry trees, Nance trees with Hummingbird flowers in the fence and parts with areas where we have a lot of seed and wild flowers.( a lot of lesser Goldfinches). The horse stable is fun because everyday when I feed the horses, then a black striped Sparrow is coming and pick food out of the hay. And in the meadow the Cattle Egret is back and they are walking with the Horses.(no Cattle Egrets in the months June Juli August Sept)We did plant some sugarcane with pine apple on the edge of the forest, monkeys like that, the neighbours did provide the cane, because when the Monkeys(white face Cappuccin) eat at our place, they don't eat at the neighbours ( our neighbours live of the cane and other fruits)...at our place it is for the animals. Then of course the shade grown coffee with the underground of all kind of weeds . We have wood walls for the wrens . Finally flowers in the garden , I did put a lot of effort in the garden , it is not fancy and clean , but messy, but we have sooo much birds and insects because of that and I must say, the flowers are doing well.
Love it, day after day!

a new book

a new book... http://www.amazon.com/Joyas-voladoras-Flying-Jewels-depth/dp/9962690595#reader_9962690595

nice migration time, loads of migration birds are coming through our farm and surroundings..a new bird on the farm today!

It is a great migration time. Here on the farm it's a big bird party for me. 2 Days ago suddenly everywhere the sound of Baltimore Orioles and now also everywhere in our forest are the "silent" Swainson's Thrushes(lot of berries on the farm) ..they don't make a (wiet wiet ) sound like when they go back in April/May.
I never saw so much Townsend's warblers coming through, why is that...always so much why's...
The Philadelphia Vireo's and Tennessee Warblers did arrive in small amounts, they are always later .
My first Wilson's Warbler  that I did see was 14th of October... I keep my eyes open for the Hawks...hope I will see some migration...
Today a black and white Becard on the farm , a new bird on this farm.

Here the bird list from 14th of October 2013..Bajo Mono Boquete
Cattle Egret
black Vulture
yellow headed Caracara
Bat Falcon
white tipped Dove
ruddy ground Dove
crimson fronted Parakeets
Vaux's Swift
violet Sabrewing
rufous tailed Hummingbird
white throated mountain Gem
red crowned Woodpecker
hairy Woodpecker
spot crowned Woodcreeper
yellow bellied Elaenia
mountain Elaenia
olive striped Flycatcher
torrent Tyrannulet
common tody Flycatcher
tufted Flycatcher
dark Pewee
yellowish Flycatcher
black Phoebe
great Kiskadee
gray capped Flycatcher
tropical Kingbird
yellow winged Vireo
house Wren
plain Wren
orange billed nightingale Thrush
ruddy capped nightingale Thrush
Swainson's Thrush
Mountain Thrush
clay colored Thrush
Tennessee Warbler
Chestnut sided Warbler
Townsend Warbler
black burnian Warbler(female)
slate throated Redstart
Collared Redstart
Wilson's Warbler
common bush Tanager
Cherrie's Tanager
blue gray Tanager
Palm Tanager(in flight)
silver throated Tanager
red legged Honeycreeper
buff throated Saltator
yellow faced Grassquit
white naped brush Finch
chestnut capped brush Finch
rufous collared Sparrow
Baltimore Oriole
yellow throated Euphonia
lesser Goldfinch

trip to Holland 22th of September to 6th of October 2013

It was really time for a vacation and we did go to Holland to visit family  and the goal was to go to nature areas, we did want to do that for a while so we did... we had two weeks fantastic weather.
Like in Panama, there was a good migration of birds.
The bird list....
Fuut - great crested Grebe
Aalscholver-Great Cormorant
grote Zilverreiger-great white Egret(Oostvaardersplassen Tiengemeten )

kleine Zilverreiger-little Egret (Tiengemeten)
blauwe Reiger-gray Heron

 

Ooievaar-white Stork
Lepelaar- Eurasian Spoonbill (Tiengemeten 24/9/13)
kleine Zwaan-Tundra Swan (Tiengemeten 25/9/13)
KnobbelZwaan- mute Swan
Brandgans-Barnacle Goose (Tiengemeten 24/25 /9/13..Oostvaarders plassen 2th Oct 2013)

grote Canadese Gans-Canada Goose
grauwe Gans-graylag Goose
wilde Eend-Mallard
Krakeend-Gadwall (Oostvaarders plassen 2th of Oct 2013)
Smient - Eurasian Wigeon
Slobeend-northern Shoveler
Wintertaling-common Teal
Topper-greater Scaup (Oostevaarders plassen Tiengemeten)
Tafeleend- common Pochard
Bergeend-common Shelduck
Nijlgans -Egyptian Goose
Kuifeend-tufted Duck
Buizerd-common  Buzzard
Torenvalk-common Kestrel
Havik -northern groshawk
Smelleken-Merlin (Tiengemeten)
Slechtvalk-Peregrine (Oostvaarders Plassen)
Fazant-common Fheasant
Meerkoet-common Coot
Waterhoen-Moorhen
Goudplevier
Scholekster-Oystercatcher
Goudplevier(lifer)-European golden Plover (Tiengemeten)
Zilverplevier(lifer)-grey Plover (Tiengemeten)
Kievit-Northern Lapwing
Steenloper-Turnstone

Grutto?-black tailed Godwit(IJmuiden 4th of October 2013)
Kanoet(lifer)-Red Knot (IJmuiden4th of October 2013)

bonte Strandloper-Dunlin (IJmuiden)
groenpootruiter-common Greenshank (Tiengemeten)
Kokmeeuw-black headed Gull
Zilvermeeuw-Herring Gull
grote Mantelmeeuw-great black-backed Gull
Visdief-common Tern
Houtduif-Wood Pigeon
halsband Parkiet- rose ringed Parakeet
IJsvogel -common Kingfisher (Waterleiding duinen(Oase)1 th of October Golfbaan Spaarnwoude 10th of Oct)
groene Specht-Green Woodpecker (Spaarnwoude(Velsen)
grote bonte Specht-great spotted Woodpecker
veldleeuwerik -sky Lark
Boerenzwaluw-Barn Swallow
huiszwaluw-House Martin
Oeverpieper-rock Pipit (IJmuiden)
witte Kwikstaart-white Wagtail (the roof was full with these birds on "Tiengemeten")

winterkoning-Wren
tjiftjaf-Chiffchaff (6th of Oct)
Kuifmees-crested Tit (Waterleidingduinen)
Pimpelmees-blue Tit
Koolmees-great Tit
boomklever-Wood Nuthatch

Boomkruiper-short toed Treecreeper
Gaai-Eurasian Jay
Ekster-Magpie
Kauw-Eurasian Jackdaw
Zwarte Kraai-Carrion Crow
Spreeuw-common Starling
Huismus-House Sparrow (picture on IJmuiden beach)

Vink-Chaffinch
Keep-Brambling
Groenling-Greenfinch
Putter -Goldfinch
Roodborst-Robin

Heggenmus-hedge Accentor
grauwe Gors-Corn Bunting

We did go (always a wish from me) to the Island Tiengemeten in southwest of Holland...go there when you are in Holland...you can spend the night in the only hotel (Herberg) on the island.

 

We did go, that is a must when I am in Holland ...to the Oostvaarders plassen..for bird/nature crazy people a must. We did see  the new beautiful movie about this area (de nieuwe wildernis, the new Wilderness)

 

We stayed for 8 days in Spaarnwoude, nearby family, also birders paradise, also nearby dunes and coast (b&b woodside lodge for 4 days)