Great Jacamar
I stayed home last night instead of going swimming because I just didn’t feel like going out in the weather again. It was chilly, rainy and windy all day and after a busy weekend it felt like a stay-at-home-with-the-birds night, providing me enough mental energy for combing through the Panama Pictures.
It wasn’t always easy to find the birds…when I was taking the pictures, or going through the pictures later. Like this Bay Wren below.
Or this American Pygmy Kingfisher.
Some were a bit more obliging, like the White-Whiskered Puffbirds below. Male on the left, female on the right.
Or the Scarlet-Rumped Cacique that took forever to finally turn around and show me the field mark it was named for. I’m rather enamored of its blue-ringed eyes.
Just as I almost got the White-Tailed Trogon in focus, it left.
Woodcreepers are unique, and the Black-Striped Woodcreeper below is particularly so.
This Rufous Mourner didn’t appear very mournful to me; I think it must be named after its song.
Rufous Mourner
Below is a somewhat distant Masked Tityra.
Masked Tityra
Another beautiful skulker below, a Chestnut-Backed Antbird. When I see an antbird I always feel like a Peeping Tom.
Mealy Parrots are fairly common in Central and South America, but I find them beautiful and wish they had a more attractive name.
Below, one of many Mantled Howler Monkeys that were hard to fit into a picture.
I know, I promised you Protest, so here we go with a series of some shots from the Science March in Chicago on April 22nd.
I think I’ll spread the Science March photos out over a few posts – likely marches will be ongoing all spring/summer/dare I say all year? and we’ll stay in the mood.
There’s a spring bird count to do on Saturday morning, choir on Sunday, and if it ever stops raining, the garden beckons. Stay tuned for more from Panama, spring migration, etc. Thanks for your visit!
Below is a Yellow-Tailed Oriole. I saw a lot of different Orioles all at once years ago in Belize and got terribly confused. Luckily this was the only Oriole we had to worry about except for the Baltimore Oriole which we shall see shortly in spring migration in the United States, with many staying to breed throughout the summer.
It’s been a busy week, with the March for Science last Saturday, then Choir Sunday at Unity Temple, work, upcoming rehearsal and participation in the Spring Music Festival at Unity Temple-United Lutheran which my friend Linda and I attended last year but this year we are performing Schubert’s Sonatina for Flute and Piano. I managed to get in a swim last night but the rest of the week is clamoring for attention. I’ll be back with more birds from Panama as soon as I can.