October 2018. A return to the Canopy Tower near the Panama Canal followed by a visit to the Canopy Camp in Darién to finally catch up with Harpy Eagle. This was in the wet season, so cooler than our 2006 visit, with more North American migrants, including a spectacular raptor migration.
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The early morning mist shrouds the Panama Canal
A White-whiskered Puffbird enjoys breakfast
Broad-billed Motmot
Spotted Antbird
Brown-throated Sloth, one of many
Even this close you can use a long exposure with a sloth
Immature male Black-throated Trogon
Great Jacamar, one of our most wanted birds
A great start with Keel-billed Toucan on the Canopy Tower
Yellow-throated Toucan
Ruddy-tailed Flycatcher
Owl Butterfly
Red-capped Manakin
White-faced Capuchin
Black-capped Pygmy Tyrant, the world’s smallest passerine
Plain Xenops, anything but plain
Spectacled Cayman
Barred Antshrike
Prothonotary Warbler
One more Tower view
Golden-collared Manakin
Song Wren
A trio of Manakins: Blue-crowned Manakin
Streak-chested Antpitta
Geoffroy’s Tamarin, hoping to cadge a banana
Long-billed Hermit
Bicolored Antbird
Hoffmann’s Two-toed Sloth
Great Potoo
Northern Barred Woodcreeper
Helicopter Damselfly
Pipeline Road
Black-billed Cuckoo
Stripe-throated Hermit
Sulfur Yellow Butterfly
Green Iguana
Presumably these will grow up into Hawkmoths
Slaty-tailed Trogon, female
The view from the Canopy Tower looking towards Panama City
A car-carrier goes down the canal
White-necked Jacobin
White-flanked Antwren
A juvenile male Black-throated Trogon
Golden-crowned Spadebill
A Great Jacamar hides at close range
Finally it comes into full view
Tropical Mockingbird
The ever-changing view from the Tower
The view from the tower at the Rainforest Discovery Centre on Pipeline Road
Fulvous-vented Euphonia
Crowned Woodnymph
Black-crowned Antshrike, female
Checker-throated Antwren
Streak-chested Antpitta
Going along the canal
Why do they never call these cranes Cuthbert or Quentin?
There’s room to pass in this bit
Black-breasted Puffbird
You. Will. Give. Me. A. Banana!
Streaked Flycatcher
Slender Anole
Whooping Motmot. Probably the best-looking of the Motmots here, but they always sit in shadow
Praying Mantis
Black-and-white Owl
A small part of a flock of over 5000 Broad-winged Hawks (they’re about the size of a Buzzard). There are approximately 1077 hawks in this photo.
Black-tailed Trogon
A White-necked Puffbird waits for us in a lay-by.
Black-throated Mango, female
Snowy-bellied Hummingbird
Sapphire-throated Hummingbird
Yellow-margined Flatbill
The river at Torti
Centipedes
Long-billed Starthroat
One of the very few moths at the camp “moth trap”
Brood parasitism in action: this Orange-crowned Oriole is feeding a young Shiny Cowbird
Lineated Woodpecker
Grey-cheeked Nunlet
Northern Royal Flycatcher
Blue Morpho, closed as usual.
White-tailed Trogon, female
White-tailed Trogon, male
This spider is in trouble: caught in the middle of an ant-swarm, the end of the branch is the only place they haven’t got to yet.
Wasp making paper from our platform
Our tent at the camp
Look carefully: there’s an animal a foot long in this picture.
White-faced Capuchin
The view from our tent. Spot the Sloth.
Spot-breasted Woodpecker
A rubbish picture of great birds: Great Green Macaw
American Purple Gallinule
The big day begins: after an hour in the van and another in a 4×4 we start our three-hour dugout canoe trip.
Amazon Kingfisher
A couple of miles walking after the boat and we finally get to our target. A female Harpy Eagle on a nest.
As a guide to how huge they are, the legs are about 2 inches in diameter.
This spider is busy making a packed lunch
American Kestrel
Smooth-billed Ani
No frog in the shower on this trip, but the bathroom grasshopper is gigantic.
Chestnut-headed Oropendola
Grey-cheeked Nunlet
Most of a spider
Glorious Blue Skipper
Banded Peacock
Little Tinamou: years of frustration with this bird finally over.
Caught napping: the Blue Morpho was resting open, but clamped shut as soon as I moved to get a better angle.
Our ensuite Sloth (It can’t be a bad place when you can see a Sloth from your toilet).
Spot-crowned Barbet
Fork-tailed Flycatcher
This Tome’s Spiny Rat trapped itself looking for food in a bucket
Leafhopper
A night drive took us about 2 yards before the van broke down. The night walk that followed had the advantage of close views of Pauraque
This False Fer de Lance is harmless.
Common Opossum
Crane Hawk
Golden-green Woodpeckers, male below, female above.
Black Oropendola
Dusky-backed Jacamar, very range-restricted.
Crested Oropendola
Southern (or Neotropical) River Otter. We’ve been rumbled.
The dry season road isn’t usable in the wet.
Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture
White-headed Wren
Bananaquit
Smaller, rarer and harder to see than Harpy Eagle, this Crested Eagle was a massive bonus. The dark morph is rarer still.
The easiest way around the forest in Quebrada Felix is to walk up the river.
Spectacled Owl
A frog he would a-wooing go.
Cracker sp
Red-crowned Woodpecker
White-nosed Coati
Red-tailed Squirrel
Clay-colored Thrush
Geoffroy’s Tamarin
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Double-toothed Kite
Tropical Kingbird, an ever-present bird.
This female Great Curassow has been visiting a farm for the chicken-feed since it was a chick.
White-fronted Nunbird