Days 9 and 10: Bastimentos Island!
Wednesday 4 December 2013
80 °F
Hi all,
Yesterday we travelled in a car, in another car, in a bus, in another bus, in a boat, in another boat, and FINALLY to the secluded Bastimentos Island near Bocas del Toro. We are renting a wonderful open house right on the beach with the Gulf of Mexico right at our fingertips! NOTE: Wifi is very spotty here so I may not be able to post on this blog every day.
Other than birds, I have seen creatures in the water such as sting rays (!!), lobsters, electric eels (!!), crabs, sea urchins, sea sponges, and starfish.
Now, to the birds. I have seen quite a few birds in these last two days, including the following that are pictured, and then listed. Enjoy!
Orange-billed Nightingale-thrush
Lesser Goldfinch (male)
Flame-colored Tanager (male)
Brown Pelican
Solitary Sandpiper
Yellow-throated Warbler (male)
Bananaquit (isn't that a funny name?!)
American Pygmy Kingfisher
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Montezuma Oropendola
Prothonotary Warbler 
Here is the bird list. I am going to list the raptors first because I saw a great amount of them yesterday.
- **Indicates a life bird
RAPTORS (birds of prey)
- **Semiplumbeous Hawk
Roadside Hawk
Common Black-hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Bat Falcon
Yellow-headed Caracara
- **Laughing Falcon
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
NON-RAPTORS
Great-tailed Grackle
Ringed Kingfisher
- **American Pygmy Kingfisher
- **Least Grebe
Tropical Kingbird
Great Kiskadee
White-tipped Dove
Great Egret
Rufous-tailed Hummingbird
- **Bananaquit
Yellow-throated Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Prothonotary Warbler
House Wren
- **Gray-breasted Martin
Blue-gray Tanager
Brown Pelican
Magnificent Frigatebird
Franklin's Gull
Laughing Gull
- **Montezuma Oropendola
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
This means that now I have seen 425 species of birds, up from 418 two days ago.
Stay tuned and happy birding!
Henry
