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by Elliotte Rusty Harold.
Original Post: #583 - #595 at the B&B
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After an afternoon break, we drove off to Gamboa to visit the new Canopy Lodge Bed & Breakfast, which has several feeders that attract relatively suburban birds. It was raining so I didn’t bring my camera. Big mistake: there was a covered porch to watch from and lots of easy photo opportunities. Damn it. However we did get lots of great birds at the feeders plus a mammal or two. But first, as we waited to cross the one way bridge into Gamboa, we spotted a Mockingbird; not the usual Northern Mockingbird of suburban parks and gardens but rather a Tropical Mockingbird, #583. This barely makes it into the southern U.S. and shows up in some field guides, but is not a regular bird, and I’ve never seen one before.
Next we stopped at a soccer field where the leader heard some Orange-chinned Parakeets. We didn’t see them well, but we did see two Southern Lapwings in the field, #584.
Finally we arrived at the Bed & Breakfast. Bewfore we even walked to the feeders we spotted a Social Flycatcher in a large tree across the street, #585. Then the staff put some bananas and oranges into the platform feeders, and the birds began swarming in: tanagers, honey creppers, thrushes, and even a Motmot! Since the birds were really obvious and exposed on the feeders, I think I managed all the birds the leaders saw except for a single Rufous-tailed Hummingbird and a Golden-fronted Greenlet.
Social Flycatcher
Crimson-backed Tanager
Blue-gray Tanager
Whooping Motmot
Red-legged Honeycreeper
Clay-colored Thrush
Green Honeycreeper
Red-crowned Woodpecker
Thick-billed Euphonia
Shining Honeycreeper
Buff-throated Saltator
Total species list for the B&B was:
Orange-chinned Parakeet
White-necked Jacobin
Whooping Motmot
Keel-billed Toucan
Red-crowned Woodpecker
Social Flycatcher
House Wren
Clay-colored Thrush
Yellow Warbler
Crimson-backed Tanager
Blue-gray Tanager
Palm Tanager
Plain-colored Tanager
Green Honeycreeper
Shining Honeycreeper
Red-legged Honeycreeper
Buff-throated Saltator
Thick-billed Euphonia
595 and it’s only 4:30. At this rate I could hit 600 before dinner.
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