Going through photos of last year and I found a Panama woodpecker that I didn’t post: This is a Central American cousin of the pileated woodpecker and about the same size. I ended up seeing them on field trips based both from Canopy Tower and Canopy Lodge. They weren’t super common but, like a pileated, [ Read More ]
Winter and lots of snow brings with it cabin fever. We have lots of modern conveniences that help ease that tension, like Netflix Watch Instantly and Amazon Streaming and alcohol! You don’t have to go to a rental facility, you don’t even have to wait for Netflix to arrive in the mail–you can have most [ Read More ]
I was beginning to think the annual cold that hits me in February might miss me this year, but it arrived unannounced yesterday morning. Gr. As I have been drinking gallons of various instant Thai soups and toddies to rid my nasal cavaties of this beast before Saturday’s Birds and Beers, I wondered what might [ Read More ]
Wow, what a great Monday–we might hit 40 degrees (do I dare take out my bike), I’m going to learn how to ice fish today and I just came off a fun weekend. I have to put in a plug for my Twin Cities readers: Non Birding Bill’s birthday was the day I flew to [ Read More ]
There are some birds who are celebrities to me–one would be the potoo. I was into birds as a kid, I had a ton of books and I remember sitting in my room looking at bird books and there were certain birds that were iconic that I hoped to see one day when I got [ Read More ]
As much as I enjoyed my time at Canopy Lodge in Panama, I was really looking forward to Canopy Tower. I have heard so much about this place from other birders and from one of the guides–Carlos. It has always stuck in my mind as a place I need to go. It did not disappoint. [ Read More ]
I have no patience. I had this idea that I would go through my Panama trip chronologically using my words, photos and even some edited HD video. But I’m too excited about this baby sloth! I blogged way too early about sloth in Panama. I didn’t think my look at a sloth was going to [ Read More ]
I’m very excited, I just got a 2 pound package of shade grown coffee that I ordered in the mail: I’ve always been a fan of shade-grown coffee on paper, but generally found the taste of most of them lacking–and I’m not a coffee snob, I’ll drink gas station coffee. But generally the flavor of [ Read More ]
Check out this short clip of yellow-rumped caciques (pronunciation here) in full display mode–you must listen to this crazy sound! I’m in the process of editing video and photos from Panama…wow, HD video takes up a lot of space on my poor laptop, but I got some cool stuff. Panama is a birding wonderland. I’ve [ Read More ]
A coati eating a palm fruit on the road outside of Canopy Tower:
