Tag: Panama

Another bunch of pictures from Panama, this time from the Canopy Camp.

Black-tailed Trogon

A White-necked Puffbird waits for us in a lay-by.

Black-throated Mango, female

Snowy-bellied Hummingbird

Sapphire-throated Hummingbird

Long-billed Starthroat

Yellow-margined Flatbill

The river at Torti

Centipedes

Our tent at the camp

The view from our tent. Spot the Sloth.

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.

Look carefully: there’s an animal a foot long in this picture.

Wasp making paper from our platform

White-faced Capuchin

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

It’s been a week of ploughing through photos, and it’s not done yet, but here are a few more pictures from our time at the Canopy Tower.

The view from the Canopy Tower looking towards Panama City

Black-and-white Owl

Whooping Motmot. Probably the best-looking of the Motmots here, but they always sit in shadow

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.

Praying Mantis

Slender Anole

Streaked Flycatcher

You. Will. Give. Me. A. Banana!

Black-breasted Puffbird

Going along the canal

There’s room to pass in this bit

Why do they never call these cranes Cuthbert or Quentin?

Checker-throated Antwren

Black-crowned Antshrike, female

Crowned Woodnymph

Fulvous-vented Euphonia

The view from the tower at the Rainforest Discovery Centre on Pipeline Road

The ever-changing view from the Tower

Tropical Mockingbird

A Great Jacamar hides at close range

Finally it comes into full view

Golden-crowned Spadebill

A juvenile male Black-throated Trogon

White-flanked Antwren

White-necked Jacobin

A car-carrier goes down the canal

Slaty-tailed Trogon, female

Presumably these will grow up into Hawkmoths

Green Iguana

Sulfur Yellow Butterfly

Pipeline Road

Stripe-throated Hermit

Black-billed Cuckoo

Helicopter Damselfly

Northern Barred Woodcreeper

Great Potoo

One more Tower view

Streak-chested Antpitta

A few hours in Amsterdam should give ample opportunity to put some pictures on the blog, but my battery’s flat, I didn’t bring a European adapter and I’m far too tight to buy one at these prices, so I’ll have to content myself with a shot of a moth taken on my phone. Panamá was brilliant, and there’s a stack of pictures to wade through.

We’re now in the excellent Canopy Camp in Darién and today was the main reason for coming to Panama.  Yes, Harpy Eagle is just another bird, but some birds are better than others.  This female on a nest is up there with the best.  Only one low-res picture, as the internet here isn’t as good as the birding.

A morning on the Pipeline Road today started quietly but ended magnificently when the Black-faced Antthrush that I was whistling in turned into a Streak-chested Antpitta before our eyes (it’s twelve years since we were here and I had the calls confused).  The light in the forest is shocking, so the wonder is that there are any photos rather than their quality.

A great start with Keel-billed Toucan on the Canopy Tower

Yellow-throated Toucan

Owl Butterfly

A trio of Manakins: Blue-crowned Manakin

Golden-collared Manakin

Red-capped Manakin

Song Wren

Ruddy-tailed Flycatcher

Streak-chested Antpitta

A few more pictures from the last few days…

Hoffmann’s Two-toed Sloth

Long-billed Hermit

Bicolored Antbird

Geoffroy’s Tamarin, hoping to cadge a banana

White-faced Capuchin

Black-capped Pygmy Tyrant, the world’s smallest passerine

Barred Antshrike

Prothonotary Warbler

Spectacled Cayman

Plain Xenops, anything but plain

Great Jacamar, one of our most wanted birds

On our way to the Canopy Camp in Darien we have stopped off for a few days at the Canopy Tower to revisit old friends, both human and wildlife.  There’s not that many new birds here for us, but it’s still worth another look at some old ones.  This is a fairly random selection from this morning.

More updates may follow if I can stay awake long enough to post them (and if there’s any worthwhile internet at the camp).

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