#570-#582 on Semaphore Hill
I’m putting up some quick placeholders here. Time permitting I’ll fill them in with more details and photographs later, but there are so many birds it’s easy to get way behind. Numbers may not add up until I edit this more carefully.
Around 10:30 we tore ourselves away from the raptor migration on top of the tower, descended to the courtyard, and walked down the entrance road. Almost immediately we found a small flock of antbirds and others including Fasciated Antshrike and Red-capped Manakin. 13 more life birds total:
- Black Hawk-Eagle
- Slaty-tailed Trogon
- White-whiskered Puffbird
- Plain Xenops
- Cocoa Woodcreeper
- Fasciated Antshrike
- Western Slaty-Antshrike
- Checker-throated Antwren
- White-flanked Antwren
- Dot-winged Antwren
- Southern Bentbill
- Blue-crowned Manakin
- White-breasted Wood-Wren
There are whole families of birds here I’ve never seen before including Manakins, Antbirds, Toucans, and Puffbirds. It helps greatly to have a guide when you can’t even place a bird to family at first glance. Plus the guides are much better at locating the birds.
Total list I saw (not including several birds I missed) was:
- Black Vulture
- Turkey Vulture
- Black Hawk-Eagle
- Slaty-tailed Trogon
- Broad-billed Motmot
- White-whiskered Puffbird
- Keel-billed Toucan
- Plain Xenops
- Cocoa Woodcreeper
- Fasciated Antshrike
- Western Slaty-Antshrike
- Checker-throated Antwren
- White-flanked Antwren
- Dot-winged Antwren
- Southern Bentbill
- Eastern Wood-Pewee
- Acadian Flycatcher
- Blue-crowned Manakin
- Red-capped Manakin
- White-breasted Wood-Wren
- Black-and-white Warbler
- Canada Warbler
- White-shouldered Tanager
- Scarlet-rumped Cacique
Around 12:00 the van picked us up, still only half way down the road, and we returned to the tower for a hot lunch.
