Recent Posts Tagged With 'panama'

• A Fast Escape

  Posted on Thursday September 24th, 2009 at 09:31 in travel, photos, panama, squirrel cuckoo

  I jerked my head around and froze. DANGER! Alarm bells were going off in my head.  Thrashing sounds among the trees are never a good thing, regardless of where you might be on the planet. I was standing in the middle of the road, searching for what...

• Bird Photography Weekly

  Posted on Sunday September 20th, 2009 at 09:59 in travel, photos, panama, hummingbird, canopy lodge, amazilia edward, el valle de anton, snowy-bellied hummingbird

  The rain was falling in buckets, yet a tiny Snowy-bellied Hummingbird sat tenaciously on the top of a Heliconia.  He would make a foray out occasionally, but then return to his perch, point his bill to the sky and sit for long periods.  I stood o...

• Moonwalking Manakins

  Posted on Friday September 18th, 2009 at 17:56 in travel, video, panama, moonwalk, manakins, red-capped manakin

  “Is this the one that does the moonwalk?” I looked over at an older woman standing next to me and shrugged with a little head-shake. I had absolutely no idea what she was talking about. The only moonwalk I knew of was Michael Jackson...

• Wordless Wednesday

  Posted on Wednesday September 16th, 2009 at 06:22 in travel, photos, panama, bat, hummingbird feeder, canopy lodge, orange nectar bat

• Trogon Love

  Posted on Friday September 11th, 2009 at 18:58 in travel, panama, trogon, canopy tower, trogons, black-throated trogon, slaty-tailed trogon, trogon massena, trogon rufus, trogon violaceus, violaceous trogon

  Will ya look at that bad boy.  Total fave.  There is something about the Violaceous Trogon that I just love.  Maybe it’s all that yellow. I didn’t go to Panama with any target birds in mind.  But once I got an eye-full of this guy, I ...

• Butterflies of Panama

  Posted on Wednesday September 9th, 2009 at 06:53 in travel, panama, butterflies, mariposas, canopy tower, canopy lodge

  One of the first things (well aside from the birds) that you will notice in Panama is the incredible array of Butterflies.  In the heat of the day (and I am talking serious heat and humidity at the Tower) during the siesta break, I wandered around s...

• Bird Photography Weekly

  Posted on Monday September 7th, 2009 at 23:10 in panama, canopy tower, ammo ponds, rufescent tiger heron, tigrisoma lineatum

  We climbed onto the open-air truck with more than a few nervous glances at the dark threatening sky. The day before it had clabbered up and even rained a few drops, but then cleared. We were hoping for a repeat of that. Just as we crossed the Chagres...

• Birding from the top of the Canopy Tower

  Posted on Friday September 4th, 2009 at 15:13 in photo, panama, birds, birding, bird watching, sunrise, keel-billed toucan, canopy tower, blue continga, golden-hooded tanager

  With a view of the Panama Canal and the surrounding  forest canopy, the Canopy Tower is an incredible place to stand in the early morning light.  I climbed the narrow steps to pop my head above the hatch to see the vista open before me.  As I ...

• Hanging with Monkeys in Panama

  Posted on Thursday September 3rd, 2009 at 05:00 in monkey, panama, howler monkey, central american, geoffroy's tamarin, red-naped tamarin

  I drifted out of a dream to the unearthly sound of Howler Monkeys brawing in the new dawn.  It sounded like they were right outside of my room.  I tossed on some clothes and dashed up 3 flights of stairs to peer into the darkness.  I waited, alone...

• Feeling Lazy in Panama

  Posted on Wednesday September 2nd, 2009 at 14:24 in panama, three-toed sloth, perezoso, two-toed sloth, canopy tower

  I had just been saying I wanted to see a sloth, (I really wasn’t whining, really) when the guide pointed up and said, “There’s one.” Now, of course, I find out that they are pretty common. There are both 2 and 3-toed Sloths h...

• Bird Photography Weekly

  Posted on Tuesday September 1st, 2009 at 05:39 in panama, canopy tower, broad-billed motmot, electron platyrhynchum minor

  Sitting sliently in a tree overhead, a Broad-billed Motmot nearly blended in with the environment around it. But for the quick eyes of Domi, my guide, I would never have seen it. This is smaller than the Rufous Motmot with more extensive green on t...

• Birding in Panama – part 1

  Posted on Monday August 31st, 2009 at 20:40 in panama, birding, pipeline road, canopy tower

  I arrived at the Canopy Tower at 2:15 to find out my first bird tour was at 3.  I quick, quick, changed clothes and met Domi, one of the guides,  in the parking lot.  We headed out to the Pipeline Road. We were no sooner out of the car before w...

• Panama Bound

  Posted on Monday August 31st, 2009 at 02:29 in travel, panama, birding, canopy tower

  I am off to the land of Motmots, Flowerpiercers, Tinamous and Howler Monkeys.   I will be at the Canopy Tower in Panama for 4 nights and the Lodge for 3.  Can I hear a W00T?  I’m super excited. I am dragging my creaky old laptop with me, so ...