Bird watching in Panama - December 2024

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December 2024

Day 4

Thursday 19 ^th of December 2024 and my Guide is waiting for me when I come down to the reception at 5 thirty. I had had time for my tea and cheese in my room before leaving.

My last day of birding in Panama and we will go visit Cerro Azul in Chagres National Park. The area is the source for the Panama Canal.

My Guide is waiting for me at 5 thirty

We leave my hotel Marinn Place Financial District at 5 thirty and it will take us about one hour to reach Cerro Azul. And today I have brought my now for my new JBL Quantum Stream Wireless USB Wearable Wireless Streaming Microphone.

We reach a small coffee shop after an hour and my driver stop to have a cup of take away coffee and some breakfast. I hear a bird outside the car and I decide to try my new JBL microphone.

I get the recording of the Southern House Wren, the recording went well, very handy with the small wireless microphone and I can keep my phone in the pocket.

Listen to the Southern House Wren

Sound from www.xeno-canto.org

Remarks from the Recordist

Recorded with my mobile phone using the Merlin app. High Pass Filter applied with Audacity. My first recording with my new JBL microphone for the phone.

Sitting in a tree or pole outside the small coffee shop where my Guide stop to buy breakfast.

I report the bird in my eBird app and we continue towards Chagres National Park. We stop again 20 minutes later when we reach a stream. And this is an eBird hotspot: Cerro Azul--Río Mono

We spot two Keel-billed Toucan, but they are too far away for any good pictures. My Guide can see both of them, but I concentrate on trying to take pictures and I miss the second bird as they took off.

The Keel-billed Toucan seems to be very scared, same yesterday, they took off immediately when they spotted us far far away. so I could only report one of the birds to eBird.

We stop at the stream

We stop at the stream

Keel-billed Toucan

Keel-billed Toucan

Black Phoebe

Spotted Sandpiper

We spot one Black Phoebe and one Spotted Sandpiper in the stream and not much more and we walk back to the car

We continue and we are soon spotting one Broad-winged Hawk sitting next to the road. The bird takes off and land in a tree a few meters away. We make a U-turn and we flush the bird again when we come back. We never see the bird again and no pictures.

We reach a village in the Chagres National Park, houses belonging to rich people from Panama City. The village have been there since before they turned the area in to a national park or they would not have been allowed to build the houses.

There are a lot of chicken farms along the road up the mountain as well.

We stop at a house belonging to a friend to my Guide. We open the slide door on the van, we put a banana and we sit in the van waiting for the birds to come for breakfast.

The first bird we see is one Northern Waterthrush foraging on the lawn, too far away for any pictures.

Northern Waterthrush

Summer Tanager

Summer Tanager

Crimson-backed Tanager

Hepatic Tanager

Listen to the Dusky-capped Flycatcher

Sound from www.xeno-canto.org

Remarks from the Recordist

Recorded with my mobile phone with my new JBL microphone using the Merlin app. High Pass Filter applied with Audacity.

Bay-headed Tanager

Bay-headed Tanager

Female Fulvous-vented Euphonia

Female Summer Tanager

Crimson-backed and Blue-grey Tanager

Golden-hooded Tanager

We move behind the house, nothing we would have been able to do if my Guide had not known the owner. His friend is also a bird watchers so he has a feeding set up behind the house and we put a banana to attract the birds.

We sit down waiting for the birds and there are soon many birds coming and we enjoy the morning waiting for the sun to come up over the tree tops.

It is cloudy and overcast but the sun shows up every now and then. Overcast is good, give a soft light for photography, but there is a setback, a crazy high ISO speed.

Snowy-bellied Hummingbird

Red-throated Ant-Tanager

Chestnut-capped Warbler

Chestnut-capped Warbler

Listen to the Chestnut-capped Warbler

Sound from www.xeno-canto.org

Remarks from the Recordist

Recorded with my mobile phone with my new JBL microphone using the Merlin app. High Pass Filter applied with Audacity.

Jumping around in the bushes next to me. Red-throated Ant-Tanager destroyed the recording so I could only use the beginning.

Listen to the Rufous-breasted Wren

Sound from www.xeno-canto.org

Remarks from the Recordist

Recorded with my mobile phone with my new JBL microphone using the Merlin app. High Pass Filter applied with Audacity.

We can hear the Hepatic Tanager in the back ground

Listen to the Red-throated Ant-Tanager

Sound from www.xeno-canto.org

Remarks from the Recordist

Recorded with my mobile phone with my new JBL microphone using the Merlin app. High Pass Filter applied with Audacity.

We can hear the Hepatic Tanager in the back ground

Listen to the Crimson-backed Tanager

Sound from www.xeno-canto.org

Remarks from the Recordist

Recorded with my mobile phone with my new JBL microphone using the Merlin app. High Pass Filter applied with Audacity.

We can hear the Red-throated Ant-Tanager as well + one call from a Hepatic Tanager

Rufous-tailed Hummingbird

Female Golden-collared Manakin

Crimson-backed Tanager

Crimson-backed Tanager

Golden-hooded Tanager

Male Golden-collared Manakin

Golden-hooded Tanager

Male Yellow-faced Grassquit

Male Yellow-faced Grassquit

Female Fulvous-vented Euphonia

Male Fulvous-vented Euphoniat

We decide to change place and we drive down to the end of the road were we spot a few flowers next to the road. We stop the van and we open the slide door. There are Rufous-tailed Hummingbirds and Snowy-bellied Hummingbirds feeding from the flowers.

Now I hope that I can get some hummingbird pictures. It is not easy to get them in the “wild” There are a lot of places for hummingbird photography. They have a beautiful flower and they put nectar in the flower.

They lightning is perfect and they have their cameras in tripods aiming at the flower and when the bird is coming is it just to take a picture. I think most of the humming bird pictures are taken this way. At least the pictures of birds feeding.

The humming bird is very quick and it is next to impossible to get pictures of the bird feeding. But we gave it our best try.

Rufous-tailed Hummingbird

Rufous-tailed Hummingbird

Rufous-tailed Hummingbird

Rufous-tailed Hummingbird

Blackburnian Warbler

Snowy-bellied Hummingbird

Snowy-bellied Hummingbird

Snowy-bellied Hummingbird

Snowy-bellied Hummingbird

Snowy-bellied Hummingbird

Bay-headed Tanager

Bay-headed Tanager

Bay-headed Tanager

Blue-grey Tanager

Rufous-tailed Hummingbird

Female Shining Honeycreeper

Female Shining Honeycreeper

Male Blue Dacnis

Female Blue Dacnis

Female Blue Dacnis

Snowy-bellied Hummingbird

Female Blue Dacnis

Moving to a new place and we Stop to get some pictures at a few Yellow-faced Grassquit and one male Variable Seedeater. 5 Yellow-faced Grassquit sitting in a fence and one Variable Seedeater foraging in front of the fence.

Getting some pictures, the Yellow-faced Grassquit is a gorgeous bird so I wanted more pictures, but they did not turn out so well.

We had seen the female Variable Seedeater earlier in the morning, but no picture. The Male Variable Seedeater is an gorgeous bird and I was happy to have got the pictures.

Male Variable Seedeater

Male Variable Seedeater

Yellow-faced Grassquit

Yellow-faced Grassquit

We continue and we decide to make a stop to try the banana trick again when we reach the end of the road. No birds coming to eat the banana but we spot a few birds, among them a very beautiful bird, Olivaceous Woodcreeper. But no pictures even though I tried my very best.

We spotted two Tyrannulet, Southern Beardless-Tyrannulet and the Mistletoe Tyrannulet. I got pictures, but the birds are a wee bit too far away.

There was one Scale-crested Pygmy-Tyrant calling, or singing. I made a recording from inside the van. Sounded like the bird came closer and I got out to try to get another recording.

Listen to the Scale-crested Pygmy-Tyrant

Sound from www.xeno-canto.org

Sound from www.xeno-canto.org

Remarks from the Recordist

Recorded with my mobile phone with my new JBL microphone using the Merlin app. High Pass Filter applied with Audacity.

First recording from the car, second recording and I go out as the bird is coming closer

Southern Beardless-Tyrannulet

Mistletoe Tyrannulet

eBird Report

Los Altos de Cerro Azul, Panamá, PA
Dec 19, 2024 07:24 - 11:42
Protocol: Traveling
7.51 kilometer(s)
Checklist Comments: Bird watching with Whitehawk
32 species

White-necked Jacobin 1
Green Hermit 1
Violet-headed Hummingbird 1
Snowy-bellied Hummingbird 3
Rufous-tailed Hummingbird 4
Turkey Vulture 2
Olivaceous Woodcreeper 1
Golden-collared Manakin 2
Scale-crested Pygmy-Tyrant 1
Southern Beardless-Tyrannulet 1
Mistletoe Tyrannulet 1
Dusky-capped Flycatcher 1
Rufous-breasted Wren 1
Fulvous-vented Euphonia 4 My #100 bird species in Panama. 3 male + 1 female
Northern Waterthrush 1
Tennessee Warbler 1
Bay-breasted Warbler 1
Blackburnian Warbler 2
Chestnut-capped Warbler 2
Hepatic Tanager 2
Summer Tanager 1
Red-throated Ant-Tanager 3
Crimson-backed Tanager 4
Blue-grey Tanager 7
Golden-hooded Tanager 11
Plain-coloured Tanager 3
Bay-headed Tanager 3
Blue Dacnis 4 3 Female + 1 male
Shining Honeycreeper 1
Variable Seedeater 2 One female + one male
Yellow-faced Grassquit 9
Streaked Saltator 1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S205908895

This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (https://ebird.org/home)

Yet another good day bird watching in Panama with 17 “LIFERS”
• Yellow-faced Grassquit
• Variable Seedeater
• Shining Honeycreeper
• Bay-headed Tanager
• Red-throated Ant-Tanager
• Hepatic Tanager
• Blackburnian Warbler
• Fulvous-vented Euphonia
• Rufous-breasted Wren
• Mistletoe Tyrannulet
• Southern Beardless-Tyrannulet
• Scale-crested Pygmy-Tyrant
• Golden-collared Manakin
• Olivaceous Woodcreeper
• Rufous-tailed Hummingbird
• Snowy-bellied Hummingbird
• Violet-headed Hummingbird

Hungry and we decided to leave and go back to Panama City for some Brazilian BBQ at the Plaza Causeway. We had had our lunch there 2 days ago and it was excellent.

We will make a stop to look for the Wood Storks when we go back to Panama City, we had seen them yesterday but from the highway so not possible to stop. But the traffic was terrible and we gave up the idea, we were getting hungry.

And I need to save some birds for the next time coming to Panama. So, time for yet another eBird Trip Report.

eBird Trip Report

Since April 2023 eBird offer a new feature, to create Trip Reports. At least this is when I first heard of this feature and I have decided to make the eBird Trip Reports instead of my list of OBSERVED birds.

And of course, this also means that I will HAVE TO go back and do the same for my old birding adventures, WHEN I HAVE THE TIME!

Today's Trip Report: Panama - December 2024 | Click HERE

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Lifers
Icons for lifers used in the eBird trip reports

Species lifer:First time that someone observes a species in their life

Photo lifer:First time that someone photographs a species in their life

Audio lifer:First time that someone audio records a species in their life

Exotic species
Exotic species flags differentiate locally introduced species from native species.

Naturalized:Exotic population is self-sustaining, breeding in the wild, persisting for many years, and not maintained through ongoing releases (including vagrants from Naturalized populations). These count in official eBird totals and, where applicable, have been accepted by regional bird records committee(s).

Provisional:Either: 1)member of exotic population that is breeding in the wild, self-propagating, and has persisted for multiple years, but not yet Naturalized; 2)rarity of uncertain provenance, with natural vagrancy or captive provenance both considered plausible.

When applicable, eBird generally defers to bird records committees for records formally considered to be of "uncertain provenance". Provisional species count in official eBird totals.

Escapee:Exotic species known or suspected to be escaped or released, including those that have
bred but don't yet fulfill the criteria for Provisional. Escapee exotics do not count in official eBird totals.

The food was very good at Plaza Causeway and we left for my hotel with a quick stop at a MINI MART to buy milk for my tea. I spent the rest of the day in my room and a taxi is booked for 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.

My flight to Costa Rica leaves at 13:30 and you just have to click HERE to find out if I make it to my hotel Costa Rica.

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