Sunday, May 10, 2020

Global big day... bird watching with my birding dogs





Hello Everybody!!


Saturday 9th of May 2020... Global big day... my dogs were with me the whole day, they are such a patient dogs!
Today it was all about the amount of different species of birds... on our farm I counted 90 species of different birds...in Panama a lot of birdwatchers counted in total 627 species. A good score because of the lock down in Panama and Saturday was everybody in quarantine. Also a lot of birdwatchers had to count from their balcony in for example Panama city...but still they did it and next year it will be huge! Hope that a lot of newcomers will participate next year!!!



The weather was great, partly clouds ..not too warm, perfect!!!


Hans and I did start midnight 00.00 am the common Potoos were singing , the rufous Nightjar and tropical screech Owl also..those were my first birds. Of course downloading on E-bird and then to bed. At 5.45 am I was awake...breakfast on the balcony and listening to the birds and making a list. It's for E-bird okay to add birds on the list also when you hear them.



The whole day I was busy with my lists, pictures and bird watching in different areas on the farm(I am SO lucky) ..it was a great day! And every time when I was coming home, there was lunch, dinner and coffee ....Hans love to see me enjoying this day and he is taking care of me, so sweet!!! and relaxing.



The highlights bird wise (of course everything :) ) a collared forest Falcon adult flying by in the forest followed by a lot of angry birds. No pictures..it happened too fast!


A very cute just fledged immature of a yellow green Vireo.


I did try to take pictures...down below some best ones:
A yellow olive Flycatcher:
A red eyed Vireo:

A white throated Thrush:


Down below my lists of the global big day.
Stay healthy and safe!!!
Greetings from Terry
http://coffeeadventures.net/tinamou.html
(the colors around my text are weird, I cannot fix it 👀)


Tinamou Cottage Boquete, Chiriquí, PA
May 9, 2020 12:00 AM - 12:01 AM
Protocol: Stationary
3 species

Rufous Nightjar  1
Common Potoo  2     two singing birds...answering each other. same spots as yesterday and day before
Tropical Screech-Owl  1



Tinamou Cottage Boquete, Chiriquí, PA
May 9, 2020 12:02 AM - 12:03 AM
Protocol: Stationary
1 species

Little Tinamou  1



Tinamou Cottage Boquete, Chiriquí, PA
May 9, 2020 5:56 AM - 5:59 AM
Protocol: Stationary
9 species

Rufous-tailed Hummingbird  1
Lesson's Motmot  3
Yellow-green Vireo  2
Rufous-and-white Wren  1
White-throated Thrush  1
Clay-colored Thrush  2
Thick-billed Euphonia  2
Rosy Thrush-Tanager  1
White-naped Brushfinch  1

Tinamou Cottage Boquete, Chiriquí, PA
May 9, 2020 6:16 AM - 6:27 AM
Protocol: Stationary
19 species

Little Tinamou  1
Gray-headed Chachalaca  1
Spotted Wood-Quail  1
White-tipped Dove  1
Rufous-tailed Hummingbird  1
Gray-cowled Wood-Rail  1
Lesser Elaenia  1
Yellow-green Vireo  1
Rufous-breasted Wren  1
Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush  2
White-throated Thrush  1
Clay-colored Thrush  3
Thick-billed Euphonia  3
Yellow-bellied Siskin  1
Rosy Thrush-Tanager  2
Black-striped Sparrow  1
Blue-gray Tanager  2
Red-legged Honeycreeper  2
Buff-throated Saltator  1



Tinamou Cottage Boquete, Chiriquí, PA
May 9, 2020 6:38 AM
Protocol: Incidental
1 species

Silver-throated Tanager  2



Tinamou Cottage Boquete, Chiriquí, PA
May 9, 2020 6:42 AM
Protocol: Incidental
1 species

Flame-colored Tanager  1



Tinamou Cottage Boquete, Chiriquí, PA
May 9, 2020 6:44 AM
Protocol: Incidental
1 species

Red-eyed Vireo  1



Tinamou Cottage Boquete, Chiriquí, PA
May 9, 2020 6:47 AM
Protocol: Incidental
1 species

Bright-rumped Attila  2     2 together 1 with call 1 with song



Tinamou Cottage Boquete, Chiriquí, PA
May 9, 2020 6:57 AM - 6:59 AM
Protocol: Stationary
1 species

Yellow-olive Flycatcher  1



Tinamou Cottage Boquete, Chiriquí, PA
May 9, 2020 7:00 AM
Protocol: Incidental
1 species

Swainson's Thrush  1     Calls eating berries



Tinamou Cottage Boquete, Chiriquí, PA
May 9, 2020 7:04 AM - 7:32 AM
Protocol: Stationary
15 species

Roadside Hawk  1     Ho
Olivaceous Woodcreeper  1
Lance-tailed Manakin  3
Mountain Elaenia  1
Mistletoe Tyrannulet  1
Red-eyed Vireo  3
Tropical Gnatcatcher  2
House Wren  1
Rufous-and-white Wren  1
Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush  1
Swainson's Thrush  2     Eating berries
Orange-billed Sparrow  1
Tropical Parula  1
Rufous-capped Warbler  1
Red-crowned Ant-Tanager  1



Tinamou Cottage Boquete, Chiriquí, PA
May 9, 2020 7:34 AM
Protocol: Incidental
1 species

Scaled Pigeon  1



Tinamou Cottage Boquete, Chiriquí, PA
May 9, 2020 7:35 AM - 8:36 AM
Protocol: Traveling
0.56 kilometer(s)
20 species

Little Tinamou  1
Squirrel Cuckoo  1
Stripe-throated Hermit  1
Short-tailed Hawk  1     Dark morph
Crimson-fronted Parakeet  2
Cocoa Woodcreeper  1
Lance-tailed Manakin  3
Ochre-bellied Flycatcher  1
Lesser Elaenia  1
Lesser Greenlet  2
Red-eyed Vireo  1
Rufous-breasted Wren  2
White-throated Thrush  3     Picture
Yellow-crowned Euphonia  3
Elegant Euphonia  2
Lesser Goldfinch  1
Rosy Thrush-Tanager  1
Black-striped Sparrow  2
Orange-billed Sparrow  1
Bay-headed Tanager  1



Tinamou Cottage Boquete, Chiriquí, PA
May 9, 2020 8:54 AM - 9:31 AM
Protocol: Traveling
0.36 kilometer(s)
14 species

Blue Ground Dove  1     Chasing a White tipped Dove
White-tipped Dove  1     Chased by a blue ground Dove
Garden Emerald  1
Snowy-bellied Hummingbird  1
Black Vulture  1
Turkey Vulture  1
Red-crowned Woodpecker  1
Yellow-bellied Elaenia  1
Western Wood-Pewee  1
House Wren  1
Rosy Thrush-Tanager  2
Bay-headed Tanager  2     Pair
Red-legged Honeycreeper  2
Variable Seedeater  1



Tinamou Cottage Boquete, Chiriquí, PA
May 9, 2020 10:15 AM - 12:22 PM
Protocol: Traveling
1.02 kilometer(s)
20 species (+1 other taxa)

Gray-headed Chachalaca  1
Pale-vented Pigeon  1
Ruddy Quail-Dove  1
Collared Forest-Falcon  1     adult pale morph chased by angry Thrushes, flew by .. doing 2 short calls
Lesser Elaenia  2
Western Wood-Pewee  1
Eastern Wood-Pewee  1
Western/Eastern Wood-Pewee  1
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher  1     Call
Willow Flycatcher  1     + calls
Great Kiskadee  1
Boat-billed Flycatcher  2
Red-eyed Vireo  2
Rufous-and-white Wren  2
Isthmian Wren  1
Swainson's Thrush  2     Calls eating berries
Rufous-collared Sparrow  1
Buff-rumped Warbler  2
Silver-throated Tanager  2
Variable Seedeater  2
Streaked Saltator  1



Tinamou Cottage Boquete, Chiriquí, PA
May 9, 2020 3:20 PM - 4:58 PM
Protocol: Traveling
1.18 kilometer(s)
38 species

Pale-vented Pigeon  2
Ruddy Ground Dove  2
Rufous-tailed Hummingbird  2
Black Vulture  3
Black Hawk-Eagle  1
Short-tailed Hawk  2     Dark and light morph
Red-crowned Woodpecker  1
Lineated Woodpecker  1
Cocoa Woodcreeper  1     Ho song
Streak-headed Woodcreeper  1
Lance-tailed Manakin  3
Common Tody-Flycatcher  1
Yellow-olive Flycatcher  1
Yellow-bellied Elaenia  1
Lesser Elaenia  1
Boat-billed Flycatcher  1
Streaked Flycatcher  1
Tropical Kingbird  1
Lesser Greenlet  1
Yellow-green Vireo  2     Feeding Young
Blue-and-white Swallow  2
House Wren  1
Rufous-and-white Wren  1
Isthmian Wren  1     Ho
Tropical Mockingbird  1     Ho
Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush  2
White-throated Thrush  2
Clay-colored Thrush  4
Thick-billed Euphonia  1
Lesser Goldfinch  1
White-naped Brushfinch  2
Great-tailed Grackle  1     Ho
Rufous-capped Warbler  2
Blue-gray Tanager  2
Palm Tanager  2
Bay-headed Tanager  2
Buff-throated Saltator  1
Streaked Saltator  1



Tinamou Cottage Boquete, Chiriquí, PA
May 9, 2020 5:42 PM - 6:53 PM
Protocol: Traveling
0.89 kilometer(s)
38 species

Little Tinamou  1
Gray-headed Chachalaca  1
Squirrel Cuckoo  2
Long-billed Starthroat  1
Violet Sabrewing  1     Taking a Bath in river
Snowy-bellied Hummingbird  1
Rufous-tailed Hummingbird  2
Turkey Vulture  1
Red-crowned Woodpecker  1
Yellow-headed Caracara  2
Streak-headed Woodcreeper  2
Lance-tailed Manakin  4
Ochre-bellied Flycatcher  1
Yellow-bellied Elaenia  1
Lesser Elaenia  4     Feeding immatures
Mistletoe Tyrannulet  1
Bright-rumped Attila  1
Boat-billed Flycatcher  2
Social Flycatcher  2
Yellow-green Vireo  1
House Wren  1
Rufous-breasted Wren  1
Rufous-and-white Wren  1
Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush  3
Swainson's Thrush  1     +calls
White-throated Thrush  5
Clay-colored Thrush  4
Yellow-crowned Euphonia  1
Thick-billed Euphonia  2
Yellow-bellied Siskin  2
Rosy Thrush-Tanager  2
Orange-billed Sparrow  2
Rufous-collared Sparrow  2
Rufous-capped Warbler  1
Blue-gray Tanager  2
Silver-throated Tanager  2
Red-legged Honeycreeper  2
Buff-throated Saltator  1





Friday, May 8, 2020

Common Potoos and rufous Nightjar songs



Hello everybody, full moon ...so some beautiful songs of the common Potoos, yesterday we did hear even 3 Potoos!!! Did try to find them today, no luck yet! Tomorrow  I am going to watch birds the whole day on the farm ( global big day) , so maybe I can find them... Also the rufous Nightjars are pretty active also you hear them on the short dark video.

Greetings from Terry

http://coffeeadventures.net/tinamou.html

Wednesday, April 29, 2020

April 2020 on the farm in Boquete (Panama)





Hello everybody, yes April 2020..."the
weird lock down corona quarantine April 2020" is coming to an end..up
to.. I hope a less weird May 2020, but probably it will be again a weird
month...but maybe a little bit less uncomfortable  feeling...I hope. I
can say that Hans and I are very lucky to live on  the farm and can walk
around and enjoy nature...so I thought I make a short video that maybe
you can be a little bit part of our lives here. Unfortunately no guests
and others can enjoy it for real..so sorry for the people who had to
cancel their vacation... fortunately most of them are planning to come
later....





What is happening in April... as most
of you do see, we still see some migrant birds on the farm, coming
through and eating themselves full on berries and insects. Since a few
weeks we do get some rain and that gives insects..also the first leaf
cutter Ants and army Ants are active and of course with the army Ants we
have even more bird activity around the big swarms. See a few of my 
bird lists down below . The migration of the birds to the north is
almost done now... we still get big groups of Swainson's Thrushes, this
morning 2 red eyed Vireos and even still a female blackburnian
Warbler... of course everyday calls  and sightings of eastern Wood Pewee
and western Wood Pewee. Of course I did not go higher (or lower) in the
mountains to check out what happens there, because of the lock down.
Hear from friends who live there that the Quetzales and Bellbirds and
other birds are pretty active...






On the video you will see (in order)
the leaf cutter Ants, a nest with a clay colored Thrush (happening now),
a black striped Sparrow with food  for the immatures (happening now), a
bay headed Tanager with nest material (happening now), a male black
burnian Warbler, a male scarlet Tanager, a male red legged  Honeycreeper
who had a bath after rain shower in the leaves, a Squirrel Cuckoo and a
western Wood Pewee , army Ants and white faced Capuchin Monkeys playing
on the roof of the great Tinamou cottage.




Hope you enjoy the short April 2020 video.




All best to you and stay safe and healthy...




Greetings from Terry

http://coffeeadventures.net/tinamou.html




Tinamou Cottage Boquete, Chiriquí, PA
Apr 28, 2020 7:45 AM - 10:30 AM
Protocol: Historical
9.0 ha
Checklist Comments:     clouds.Light rain last 10 minutes...farm/forest
56 species (+1 other taxa)

Little Tinamou  X     HO
Pale-vented Pigeon  2
Ruddy Quail-Dove  2
White-tipped Dove  2
Squirrel Cuckoo  2
White-collared Swift  13     approx low level flight in valley
Snowy-bellied Hummingbird  2
Rufous-tailed Hummingbird  2
Roadside Hawk  2
Lesson's Motmot  1
Red-crowned Woodpecker  2
Lance-tailed Manakin  2
Orange-collared Manakin  1
White-winged Becard  1
Ochre-bellied Flycatcher  1
Pale-eyed Pygmy-Tyrant  1
Yellow-olive Flycatcher  1
Southern Beardless-Tyrannulet  1
Yellow-bellied Elaenia  1     catching flies
Lesser Elaenia  4
Mistletoe Tyrannulet  2
Western Wood-Pewee  1     + song
Western/Eastern Wood-Pewee  1
Bright-rumped Attila  1
Boat-billed Flycatcher  1     HO
Social Flycatcher  2
Piratic Flycatcher  1
Lesser Greenlet  1
Yellow-green Vireo  4     heard more songs
House Wren  1
Rufous-breasted Wren  1
Rufous-and-white Wren  3
Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush  2     heard more singing birds
Swainson's Thrush  5     heard more songs and calls
White-throated Thrush  3     heard more calls and songs
Clay-colored Thrush  3     heard more songs and calls
Yellow-crowned Euphonia  2
Thick-billed Euphonia  4
Yellow-bellied Siskin  3
Rosy Thrush-Tanager  2
Black-striped Sparrow  1
Rufous-collared Sparrow  1
Yellow-thighed Brushfinch  2
Tropical Parula  2
Rufous-capped Warbler  4
Buff-rumped Warbler  1
Wilson's Warbler  1
Flame-colored Tanager  1
Red-crowned Ant-Tanager  6
Blue-gray Tanager  4
Bay-headed Tanager  3
Silver-throated Tanager  1
Scarlet-thighed Dacnis  2
Red-legged Honeycreeper  4
Yellow-faced Grassquit  2
Buff-throated Saltator  2
Streaked Saltator  1





Tinamou Cottage Boquete, Chiriquí, PA
Apr 23, 2020 8:25 AM - 11:15 AM
Protocol: Traveling
2.0 kilometer(s)
Checklist Comments:     coffee farm/ upper forest  sunny (warm) huge army ants swarms
43 species (+1 other taxa)

Little Tinamou  1     HO
Ruddy Quail-Dove  2     together
White-tipped Dove  3
Squirrel Cuckoo  2     (in between army Ants)
Stripe-throated Hermit  2
Rufous-tailed Hummingbird  2
Black Vulture  2
Roadside Hawk  1     HO
Lesson's Motmot  2
Red-crowned Woodpecker  1
Lineated Woodpecker  1
Yellow-headed Caracara  1     HO
Ruddy Woodcreeper  1     ( army Ant Swarm)
Streak-headed Woodcreeper  1
Lance-tailed Manakin  2     prob. more taking advantage  of the army Ants
White-winged Becard  1     HO (coffee farm)
Yellow-bellied Elaenia  1
Lesser Elaenia  2
Western Wood-Pewee  1
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher  1
Bright-rumped Attila  1     HO
Boat-billed Flycatcher  1     HO
Lesser Greenlet  1
Yellow-green Vireo  3     heard more  songs
swallow sp.  3     high up in sky
House Wren  2
Rufous-breasted Wren  1
Rufous-and-white Wren  1
Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush  2     prob more..taking advantage of army Ants
Swainson's Thrush  11     much more...also taking advantage of army Ants and at least 5 together taking a bath in the creek
White-throated Thrush  4     taking advantage of army Ants and 2 taking a bath together with the Swainson's Trushes in the creek
Clay-colored Thrush  5     approx...hard to count ... in between the army Ants, heard much more songs
Thick-billed Euphonia  4     with nest material and 1 nest
Rosy Thrush-Tanager  2     nearby army Ants
Black-striped Sparrow  1
Yellow-thighed Brushfinch  2
Rufous-capped Warbler  4     2 pairs
Red-crowned Ant-Tanager  4     2 in between army Ants
Blue-gray Tanager  2
Bay-headed Tanager  5
Silver-throated Tanager  2
Red-legged Honeycreeper  2     stealing nest material from clay colored Thrush nest
Buff-throated Saltator  2
Streaked Saltator  3






Monday, April 20, 2020

sound of Kinkajous in the night



Hello everybody, last night it was the whole night Kinkajou party on the farm, I counted at least 5. The first calls were new for me in the 21 years that we live here... they were chasing each other, heard the trees going wild...I thought also on that moment..how about the birds who are sleeping...by the way, it is a dark video, so no Kinkajou to see..only to hear.

Greetings from Terry and ...stay safe
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Wednesday, April 15, 2020

ornate Hawk Eagle juvenile





Hello everybody, hope you are all in good health...

This was on one of my last trips (13th of March 2020) in the cloud forest on 1975 m altitude, at this point I did not know that I cannot see this beauty for a while.. fortunately I can see good birds on our farm..but I do miss this girl/guy... next time she /he will hunt on Quetzales and Bellbirds...

Stay safe! Greetings from Terry
http://coffeeadventures.net/tinamou.html

Sunday, April 5, 2020

a walk around Tinamou cottage in Boquete Panama



5th of April 2020
what was high season is suddenly low season...all the guest are gone now and we hope safe in their houses in their country. Flowers for everybody in the whole world! Stay safe , stay healthy! http://coffeeadventures.net/tinamou.html

Monday, March 30, 2020

after the first week of March 2020......

Hello all! well my first post of March 2020 was ..I think... cheerful except my write up about the Warbler migration...well that is still the same story, not a big migration at all..but of course most of my observation is on the farm, because of the big C quarantine. I hope when the rain comes and that will be soon, that we have some bigger migration groups coming through. But when I see other lists from other birders on E-bird...it is also slow over there.
Hawk migration was last week pretty good for us.
Mostly broad winged and Swainson's Hawks(picture).. and even a Zone -tailed Hawk pretty low fly over the meadow!
Rainy season is coming ..."our" birds know that... 
This thick billed Euphonia male is fighting in the mirror of the car already for more than a week, poor thing, those hormones.
The clay colored and white throated Thrushes are singing loud and today I did see at least 3 clay colored Thrushes making a nest in our coffee farm.
Then in one of the meadows I did see that a pair of white tipped Doves  have a nest with two eggs...I never knew that they make a nest so close to the ground, I wonder if that will be a succes.


It's a weird time of the year, I was looking in our agenda and normally we would have now guests, trips and be busy. I feel sorry for the  people who are now at home and missing their vacation...but most of them are coming later..next year. Now it is important that we all stay healthy. 
So suddenly I have time to go into our farm and enjoy the birds..although sometimes it is hard to enjoy when you watch the news. But the nature and birds around us relax ...I know ...we are lucky. 

Down below the lists of the last two days, to give an impression what happens here..bird wise.
Also some pictures of the ornate Hawk Eagle  from one of my last birding trips  with a Russian couple.
Probably next time when I see him/her, she/he will be adult, her/his feathers are changing fast now.

And I will end with a picture of this Tennessee Warbler out of honor for all the migration Warblers and other birds ...who are going to the north at this moment..hope they will arrive safe and make a lot of baby's.
Greetings and strength from Terry

Tinamou Cottage Boquete, Chiriquí, PA
Mar 29, 2020 4:10 PM
Protocol: Incidental
Checklist Comments:     coffee farm
4 species

Double-toothed Kite  1     since 2 days in the coffee farm area...today we finally ID him/her, hope to take a picture in the coming days.
Red-crowned Woodpecker  1
Golden-olive Woodpecker  1
Laughing Falcon  1     HO (heard only)

Tinamou Cottage Boquete, Chiriquí, PA
Mar 30, 2020 4:35 PM - 5:45 PM
Protocol: Stationary
Checklist Comments:     coffee farm/garden  sunny
51 species

Spotted Wood-Quail  X     HO songs in forest
White-tipped Dove  2
Squirrel Cuckoo  1
White-collared Swift  7     approx
Stripe-throated Hermit  1
Violet Sabrewing  1
Snowy-bellied Hummingbird  1
Rufous-tailed Hummingbird  4     approx
Black Vulture  X
Broad-winged Hawk  4     2 were hunting above the meadow
Lesson's Motmot  1
Red-crowned Woodpecker  1
Lineated Woodpecker  1     HO song (lower meadow)
Yellow-headed Caracara  1
Lance-tailed Manakin  X     HO calls and songs (forest)
Common Tody-Flycatcher  2     (garden)
Southern Beardless-Tyrannulet  1
Yellow-bellied Elaenia  1
Lesser Elaenia  3
Mistletoe Tyrannulet  1
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher  1     HO call
Great Kiskadee  1
Piratic Flycatcher  1
Tropical Kingbird  2
Yellow-green Vireo  3
Black-chested Jay  2
Tropical Gnatcatcher  2
House Wren  2
Rufous-breasted Wren  1
Rufous-and-white Wren  1
Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush  1
Swainson's Thrush  1     HO call
White-throated Thrush  X
Clay-colored Thrush  X     3 different birds making nests in coffee farm
Thick-billed Euphonia  4
Elegant Euphonia  2
Rosy Thrush-Tanager  1
Black-striped Sparrow  2
Tennessee Warbler  3     all solo
Wilson's Warbler  1
Summer Tanager  1     HO call
Red-crowned Ant-Tanager  2
Blue-gray Tanager  2     pair
Bay-headed Tanager  2
Silver-throated Tanager  2     pair
Scarlet-thighed Dacnis  3
Red-legged Honeycreeper  5
Slate-colored Seedeater  1
Yellow-faced Grassquit  2
Buff-throated Saltator  2
Streaked Saltator  1