Saturday, November 19, 2011

More Panama Birds

I am linking up with Friday Ark  and Camera Critters

These are more pic's from my birding outing with Justo of Panama's Just Adventures

Arriving a day early for our tour allowed hubby and I to go out for our day of birding. Justo took us to the Discovery Center and the famous Pipeline Road. I got 30 new lifers from our Panama trip.

These are some of the birds and a sloth we saw at the Pipeline Rd and the Rainforest Discovery Center.



Pipeline Rd sloth,  the first of three sloths we saw while in Panama for the week.



Rufous Motmot a beautiful bird and one of my 30 new lifers.



Social Flycatcher....lifer



Crimson Crested Woodpecker, similiar to the Pileated Woodie I see at home. Near this same spot we saw a Black Striped Woodcreeper. I was sorry to see it fly away before I could snap a pic. Both of these birds were also lifers.




Lots of new Hummingbird lifers, like the White Necked Jacobin another lifer.


The Pipeine Road, famous spot for birding in Panama.



A group of Black Bellied Whistling ducks, these are one of my favorite ducks. At this spot we saw the ducks, GB Heron, Wattled Jacana, Ringed Kingfisher, a beautiful Blue Dacnis. I was sorry to see that my photos of these beautiful birds were just a blurry mess. But, it was still exciting to see all of these new birds.

I hope you enjoyed my birds and sloth post. I hope you all have a great weekend and Happy Birding.

I hope you can check out more birds and animals on the Friday Ark  and Camera Critters.  Thanks to the host of Friday Ark and to Misty Dawn of Camera Critters. I look forward to these memes and to seeing all the birds and critters.

32 comments:

  1. Quite a number of birds!

    I can imagine how excited I am with my telescope lens eyeing at them.

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  2. Your birds are a little more exciting than mine ;)
    (Love the hummers by the poster)

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  3. Those are super enjoyable photos Eileen. I would have been so excited to see the sloth let alone all those beautiful birds.

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  4. What a beautiful, tropical place, and excellent shots. I've never seen a sloth (and probably not any of those birds either).

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  5. OOooohh!! love it all...especially the sloth...the rufous...and the hummers!! beautiful!

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  6. Quite an assortment! Great shots and congrats on the lifers!

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  7. that's a lot of critters, i like that last shot of all the ducks - cool finds!

    happy weekend =)

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  8. hurray for black-bellied whistlers! :)

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  9. Oh, you saw 30 lifers, wow, that's a manic holiday.

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  10. Amazing birds! Love it a lot :)

    http://www.1sthappyfamily.com/2011/11/brahman-cattles.html

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  11. Beautiful bird shots! Love the hummingbirds.

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  12. I'd be jazzed just to walk inside this beautiful forest! What a bright, colorful series! Thanks-
    Sorry I haven't been blogging much and have fallen a little behind (missed you).
    Wishing you a relaxing weekend Eileen-

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  13. ... wonderful pictures ...
    LG: Karin

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  14. Beautiful shots, my favorites are the hummingbirds.

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  15. Thanks you comments on my blog Eileen :-) I wish I could visit you more often, but I never seem to have time to get round to everyone!!

    You certainly have some birds on todays post that are real beauties, lucky you :-)

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  16. Great shots!
    Beautiful birds, love the hummers.

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  17. Lucky you, Eileen! You saw and photographed some great birds.

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  18. The woodpecker is my favorite of all these gorgeous critters Eileen.

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  19. Wow, what a wonderful experience! Thanks for sharing these shots and letting us experience a little. It must have been exciting ti capture those shots!!!

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  20. wow....another great collection!! it's so special to see the hummers again, i miss them so much!!

    you always leave such kind comments on my blog, thanks. i hope you have a wonderful thanksgiving and enjoy the time with your sister. it will be funer for you, not having to cook. xo

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  21. Great set of photos! So many varieties! I am hoping the woodpecker fly my way.

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  22. wonderful photos, thanks for sharing.

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  23. Wow, those are beautiful birds and how wonderful to see sloth in the wild. Beautiful photos as always.

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  24. The area looks to be rich in birdlife. It must have been delightful to visit.

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  25. Absolutely fabulous!!! I so enjoyed this post. Amazing.

    SHADOWS & Sunday Summary

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  26. I love the sloth just hanging out
    and the woodpecker is beautiful
    we have one around here and I'm always looking for him but he avoids me at all costs

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  27. Geeez! Panama! I'm envious. What a blast. I'd have to buy a badzillion more gigs of memory cards, that's for sure!

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  28. You did great in Panama. Both of my visits were non-birding ones. Over 40 years ago I studied tropical medicine in Panama City, but because there was so much travel and field work I was limited to 10 Kg of luggage, so the binoculars and bird books had to stay home. A more recent trip that included the Darien Jungle and the San Blas Islands was non-birding and I was not yet into photography.

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  29. Hi Eileen, As you can guess, my favorite is the Crested Woodpecker! I have never seen one but it is quite similar as you said, to the Pileated. Have an excellent Sunday!

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  30. I enjoyed your variety of birds and loved to see the sloth.
    happy days

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  31. Great photos Eileen, looks like you had a great time!
    xx

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