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Happy Halloween!
12:02 PM
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costumes,
Halloween,
yesteryear
It's once more that most ghoulish day of the year! No, not election day or tax day, my pretties! It's Halloween! In the spirit (gasp...
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costumes,
Halloween,
yesteryear
Thinking About Palms
12:45 AM
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bird poetry,
haiku,
palm trees
Dusk falling rosy Bedtime for parrots, monkeys wind rattles palm fronds.
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bird poetry,
haiku,
palm trees
Fiery-throated Hummingbird
7:52 AM
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bird photography,
birding in Panama,
fiery-throated hummingbird,
Panama La Verde birding circuits
The male fiery-throated hummingbird on his favorite perch. I've focused the last few BOTB posts on the first days of my recent Panama tr...
More Panama Cloud Forest Birding
11:51 AM
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bird photography,
birding in Panama,
Los Quetzales lodge and spa,
photographing hummingbirds
There's a reason they call this the cloud forest. On the morning of Day 2 in Panama we headed back up the mountain to the distant, off-t...
Chiriqui Cloud Forest
6:48 AM
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birding in Panama,
cloud forest,
resplendent quetzal
Gardens at Los Quetzales in Guadalupe, Panama. After an early morning flight to the David airport in the western highlands of Panama, our gr...
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birding in Panama,
cloud forest,
resplendent quetzal
Panama Birding Day 1
3:50 PM
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birding in Panama,
cloud forest,
Panama La Verde birding circuits
My most recent trip was to the isthmus of land that connects Central and South America: the country of Panama . I was the guest, along with ...
Dawn, Cerro Azul
10:33 AM
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bird poetry,
birding in Panama,
Cerro Azul
From the overlook, dawn breaking like soft rain the humid, warming earth heaves skyward its misty breath. Smaller hills like sleeping bodies...
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bird poetry,
birding in Panama,
Cerro Azul
For the OOS
4:13 AM
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birding in Panama,
Ohio Ornithological Society,
resplendent quetzal
Here's a shout-out to my homeys in the Ohio Ornithological Society . I'm wearing my OOS hat during several days birding in the cloud...
Bird of the Trip Thus Far
2:49 AM
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birding in Panama,
white hawk
We spotted a white hawk on a distant forest mountainside while birding in the El Valle region. I took this digiscoped image of it through t...
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birding in Panama,
white hawk
Giant Things of Panama City
10:51 PM
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birding in Panama,
Giant Things
Wherever you go in the world, it's comforting to know that there are Giant Things to see and admire. This guy lives in front of the Shri...
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birding in Panama,
Giant Things
Far Gone, But Where?
2:33 AM
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Sorry for the gap in the posts here at BOTB. I have been traveling. After the enjoyable but taxing 24 hours of The Big Sit I was quite tired...
Big Sit 2008: Final Report
11:03 AM
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The Big Sit
The view from the tower on Big Sit day 2008. Well we ended up the 2008 Big Sit at Indigo Hill at 69 species. That's a new record by four...
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The Big Sit
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