Birdchick

Good morning!  I have some internets while down in Central America!  I’m currently staying in Canopy Lodge, owned by the same man who owns Canopy Tower–I have died and gone to birder heaven.  This man has completely designed this place with birders and digiscopers (or photographers for that matter) in mind.

Since I left Minnesota when it was 4 degrees Fahrenheit, my body had a fitful night adjusting to the all humidity all the time but now, I think the sweat has finally slowed to a trickle. Today, I am ambling about getting acquainted with the local birds.  Here are some of my breakfast companions:

Isn’t that a dyNOmite lookin’ bird??  For the non birders of this blog, this is not some crazy ass brown-headed cowbird, this is a chestnut-headed oropendola–yeah, I can’t pronounce it either.

And for those who always thought the scarlet tanager was the bees knees, check out the tanagers coming to the banana feeder:

Here we have a crimson-backed tanager and a yellow-rumped tanager sharing some banana!

This place is fantastic–everything is open air.  My room has screens so at night I’m serenaded by frogs, insects and a whole host of creatures I can’t begin to identify.  Of course, I try to figure them out which leads to a hard time getting to sleep.  I think I’m going to love having this as my office for the next week or so.