For her the first time that she went there. A lot of migrant birds today coming through.
All over you hear the Swainson's Thrushes and a lot of different Flycatchers. From horseback I did see and hear the eastern Wood Pewee the most. Also on our farm today they were all over.
Of course the beautiful chestnut sided Warblers, they look "smashing"
Last Wednesday I did hear for the first time in my life in Panama ..2 black throated green Warblers singing, what a great sound.
And I did see this:
Not the best picture.But it is a Northern Parula ! A new bird for me , 1800 meters , pretty high up for this transient.
Yes April gives surprises.
Of course "our birds" are having hormone issues. A lot of singing ... fighting and also nest building.
Very interesting sightings on two black throated Jays. They are having their rituals in front of windows. They almost behave as crazy Manakins... jumping , dancing , bowing.
All my plants in the planters are destroyed by them and I had to wash my windows of our house and the cottages a lot of times. In the early morning they sit in front of my face watching me through the bedroom window.
Hans took this picture... :
I did make a sneaky video from them in front of our window and I posted one on this blog earlier.
http://terryboquetebirdstory.blogspot.com/2017/03/a-pair-of-black-chested-jays-courtship.html
Last week I had two mornings a group of students for a birding morning.. they wanted so badly see a Quetzal and also other birds of course. We had the luck to see a pair making a nest, that was great. Both days we did see them. The female was making the nest in an old trunk bigger and she was covered with sawdust, very cool.
What a very cool people they were, they deserved to see that special sighting!
http://explore.fieldstudies.org/blog/sea-to-shining-sea-a-journey-across-panama?
Of course the three wattled Bellbirds are back, by the way not so active in all the areas where they normal are.
A great sighting of a nice Juvenile... his voice was already adult but his feathers and wattles...not :
And 2 weeks ago this prong billed Barbet on the Quetzal trail was busy making a nest...
And of course the American Dippers(see former post) they are breeding:
The long billed Starthroat has 2 baby's...
The coming week will be interesting, I keep my binoculars very close by!
Greetings Terry
an addition bird list of the farm 10th of April 2017:
Tinamou Cottage Boquete, Chiriquí, PA Apr 10, 2017 7:20 AM - 8:45 AM Protocol: Stationary Comments: partly clouds around horse stable 52 species (+1 other taxa) Gray-headed Chachalaca 6 Roadside Hawk 1 Scaled Pigeon 1 + song White-tipped Dove 1 Stripe-throated Hermit 1 Magenta-throated Woodstar 1 + song Snowy-bellied Hummingbird 1 Rufous-tailed Hummingbird 2 Lesson's Motmot 1 Red-crowned Woodpecker 2 Golden-olive Woodpecker 1 + song Lineated Woodpecker 2 Blue-headed Parrot 2 Cocoa Woodcreeper 1 + song Yellow-bellied Elaenia 2 Mountain Elaenia 4 feeding young Pale-eyed Pygmy-Tyrant 1 Yellow-olive Flycatcher 1 Olive-sided Flycatcher 1 Eastern Wood-Pewee 2 + call Bright-rumped Attila 1 Panama Flycatcher 1 Piratic Flycatcher 1 Lance-tailed Manakin 4 Red-eyed Vireo 1 Yellow-green Vireo 5 Black-chested Jay 2 swallow sp. 1 looked like a gray breasted Martin , too fast for ID House Wren 2 singing Rufous-breasted Wren 1 Rufous-and-white Wren 1 + song Tropical Gnatcatcher 1 Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush 1 Swainson's Thrush 2 Clay-colored Thrush 3 White-throated Thrush 1 Golden-winged Warbler 1 American Redstart 1 Blackburnian Warbler 2 Chestnut-sided Warbler 3 Rufous-capped Warbler 2 Blue-gray Tanager 2 Bay-headed Tanager 2 Silver-throated Tanager 2 Red-legged Honeycreeper 5 Rosy Thrush-Tanager 2 Buff-throated Saltator 2 Flame-colored Tanager 1 + song White-winged Tanager 2 male singing Baltimore Oriole 1 Thick-billed Euphonia 3 Elegant Euphonia 2 Lesser Goldfinch 2
