Stop the car!

We were heading back in from a good morning round when Chris shouted, stop the car. She had spotted something with a long tail. Our guide, Danilo Jr.,  is fantastic on all levels, safe driving, finding birds we would never see, knowing EVERY call and song, and being an all around pleasant good sport, but it's always fun to spot things on your own. And having a guide be excited by it and identifying it for us is a bonus. Okay, Chris will just take one more bow for spotting the Long-tailed Tyrant and move on.

A family portrait

These yellow bellied seedeaters were our entertainment while we were waiting for the golden hooded tanagers. Mike is having trouble being satisfied with his photos of the golden hooded tanagers so we needed a cute diversion like this as we stand around a fig tree in wait.

Never ending tanagers

Many many beautiful tanagers and some we didn't even plan to see or know about. This is a silver throated tanager found when we hiked with our guide to a different elevation. Such beautiful detail!  To get a little better shot and all the detail, Mike climbed off trail and took a spill onto his back to protect the camera, and as our guide said, "It's all part of the adventure."

Can't decide which camera to use.

The new super zoom point and shoot is very versatile and easy to use, particularly in dark light.  The old DSLR with a 500mm reflex lens and a larger sensor takes better photos, particularly in good light or of very distant birds.  Here's the boat-billed heron with each.

We forget to mention the owl

Here's a spectacled owl.  There's no way we would have found it without our guide.  It was hidden beneath a palm off the  trail.

Four toucans

We saw four members of the toucan family in Panama.

Keel-billed Toucan

Chestnut mandibled toucan (Yellow throated toucan)



Collared Aracari

Northern Emerald Toucanet

Rufous-capped warbler

Mike became fascinated with this rufous-capped warbler, a warbler we don't get in the US.  We saw it several times on tour but never got a good photo.

We skipped the afternoon tour today and just hung out on the property.  We ran into the rufous-capped warbler in a shrub and then it took a bath in a puddle and dried off.