Yes.. this is how my day started on the 18th of December 2016
Wind from north, means summer day.
I was up at 4.30am and ready to go to Volcan, I can do that in 1 hour from Boquete and so I did.
Was nice to see the other people standing there. I signed myself in to go to Hartmann farm.
Did go there a few Christmas counts. The group was not too big and that is what I like.
The road to Hartmann is always a kind of a challenge... a lot of curves. So I have to pay attention more to the road then to birds. But we did start with some nice Crested Caracara's ..cleaning the road...
One of the members of the group did offer to make the notes..so that was great, safes time. So specially the first hour she got almost mental.. because it was raining bird names in her ears!
I think my highlights of the day was to be there with these birders. Nice and relaxed. Great kids!
The birds of the day...that is my "problem" ...I like them all.
Nice was a group of white ruffed Manakins.. 3 females and 1 lucky male.
A nice double toothed Kite last time I did see him was in Bocas del Toro, on the Continental Divide, years ago, so that was nice. (better picture is maybe coming)
But on the way back home, my agenda was to stop have some lunch and see some birds..(and then home and work my butt off) it was hot..but the clouds were there, which was great.. and I did see quit a bit of birds. A very nice display of a orange collared Manakin
He was pretty busy, it's a miracle that I have him on the picture. The female was hiding good and probably enjoying his dancing moves and funny...odd sound.
No pictures of (yes I admit) my bird of the day... a pair of great Curassow
At first I thought , that they were crested Guans, I do see them there on a regular base. But I thought they were huge and with my binoculars I did see every detail, great. A lifer for me! I did see great Curassow in Tikal, Guatemala...ages ago...
So that was a great end of a good day! Down below the lists of this day..
Merry Christmas , greetings Terry
Tinamou Cottage Boquete, Chiriquí, PA
Dec 18, 2016 4:45 AM
Protocol: Incidental
2 species
Tropical Screech-Owl 1 only heard
Common Potoo 1 only heard
Volcan to finca hartmann, Chiriquí, PA Dec 18, 2016 6:45 AM - 12:40 PM Protocol: Traveling 32.7 kilometer(s) Comments: to and from finca Hartmann, 2 hours birding on the farm during traveling a few stops. sunny. Yearly Christmas count. 91 species (+1 other taxa) Little Blue Heron 2 Cattle Egret 25 Green Heron 1 Black Vulture 10 prob more Turkey Vulture 4 Double-toothed Kite 1 Roadside Hawk 3 Broad-winged Hawk 2 Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 1 Ruddy Ground-Dove 1 Long-billed Starthroat 1 Scaly-breasted Hummingbird 2 nearby the river Chiriquí Viejo (bridge) + song 1 Heard and 1 seen maybe the same one White-tailed Emerald 2 Snowy-bellied Hummingbird 2 Rufous-tailed Hummingbird 4 approx Prong-billed Barbet 1 Fiery-billed Aracari 1 Yellow-throated Toucan 1 Red-crowned Woodpecker 4 Smoky-brown Woodpecker 1 heard only Crested Caracara 3 from car, 10 min outside of town Volcan, towards Hartmann farm Yellow-headed Caracara 3 Laughing Falcon 2 only heard Orange-chinned Parakeet 2 Blue-headed Parrot 14 approx Sulphur-winged Parakeet 12 Olivaceous Woodcreeper 1 Ruddy Foliage-gleaner 1 heard only Yellow-bellied Elaenia 1 Slaty-capped Flycatcher 1 Paltry Tyrannulet 5 2 seen 3 heard Scale-crested Pygmy-Tyrant 1 Common Tody-Flycatcher 1 Eye-ringed Flatbill 1 Yellow-margined Flycatcher 1 White-throated Spadebill 1 Bran-colored Flycatcher 1 Dark Pewee 1 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 2 1 heard 1 seen Empidonax sp. 1 Did look like a female white winged Becard, but with gray head and conspicuous 2 brown wing bars Black Phoebe 1torrent Tyrannulet 1 Dusky-capped Flycatcher 2 1 heard 1 seen Social Flycatcher 1 Gray-capped Flycatcher 1 Tropical Kingbird 2 White-ruffed Manakin 7 Lesser Greenlet 2 1 heard 1 seen Yellow-throated Vireo 5 2 seen at least 3 heard Philadelphia Vireo 2 Blue-and-white Swallow 5 Gray-breasted Martin 1 House Wren 1 Rufous-breasted Wren 3 1 seen at least 2 heard White-breasted Wood-Wren 2 1 heard 1 seen Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush 3 at least 3 only heard Clay-colored Thrush 1 Black-and-white Warbler 3 Tennessee Warbler 12 approx Mourning Warbler 1 American Redstart 2 Tropical Parula 2 1 seen 1 heard Blackburnian Warbler 2 Chestnut-sided Warbler 5 Black-throated Green Warbler 1 Rufous-capped Warbler 1 Wilson's Warbler 1 Cherrie's Tanager 12 approx Blue-gray Tanager 2 Palm Tanager 2 Golden-hooded Tanager 5 approx Speckled Tanager 4 Bay-headed Tanager 2 Silver-throated Tanager 10 approx Green Honeycreeper 1 Blue-black Grassquit 1 + song Variable Seedeater 1 Bananaquit 2 Yellow-faced Grassquit 2 Buff-throated Saltator 4 Black-striped Sparrow 1 Orange-billed Sparrow 3 only heard approx White-naped Brushfinch 1 Summer Tanager 4 approx, heard more White-winged Tanager 2 Great-tailed Grackle 4 Crested Oropendola 12 approx Yellow-crowned Euphonia 1 Thick-billed Euphonia 2 Golden-browed Chlorophonia 2 Lesser Goldfinch 2 heard more Yellow-bellied Siskin 3rio Majagua, Chiriquí, PA Dec 18, 2016 1:40 PM - 3:00 PM Protocol: Traveling 0.5 kilometer(s) Comments: cloudy 38 species (+1 other taxa) Little Tinamou 1 only heard Great Curassow 2 unfortunately no pictures, 2 x very good view through my binoculars, first time in Panama !! for me Black Vulture 3 Roadside Hawk 1 Broad-winged Hawk 1 Garden Emerald 1 Rufous-tailed Hummingbird 1 Red-crowned Woodpecker 1 heard only Lineated Woodpecker 1 Yellow-headed Caracara 2 Blue-headed Parrot 4 Yellow Tyrannulet 1 Common Tody-Flycatcher 2 Boat-billed Flycatcher 2 Tropical Kingbird 1 Orange-collared Manakin 2 Yellow-throated Vireo 1 swallow sp. 1 group , too high to ID Rufous-breasted Wren 2 Tropical Gnatcatcher 1 Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush 1 heard only Clay-colored Thrush 1 Black-and-white Warbler 1 Tennessee Warbler 2 Chestnut-sided Warbler 2 Wilson's Warbler 1 Cherrie's Tanager 3 Blue-gray Tanager 1 Silver-throated Tanager 2 Blue-black Grassquit 2 Thick-billed Seed-Finch 1 Variable Seedeater 2 Bananaquit 1 Yellow-faced Grassquit 2 Buff-throated Saltator 2 Summer Tanager 1 Indigo Bunting 1 non breeding male Crested Oropendola 1 Lesser Goldfinch 5http://coffeeadventures.net/tinamou.html
