OUT & ABOUT AROUND BOCAS DEL TORO PANAMA

Red-billed Tropicbird

I joined Jared Lloyd, founder of PhotoWild Workshops, and five other photographers in Panama the last week of November and first week of December 2024. We participated in Jared’s Wildlife of Panama workshop. This post is about the first in-country destination, Bocas del Toro archipelago, and the workshop education content and in-the-wild hands-on practice. I […]

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CEDAR WAXWINGS ARE MORE THAN BERRY GLUTTONS

Cedar Waxwing Hawking Insects

Cedar Waxwings are notorious fruit and berry eaters. Zoologists consider them among the most frugivorous birds – a bird that thrives mostly on fruit and fruit-like produce of plants – in North America. Even their name is a reference to their frugivorous diets, they especially love cedar berries. In the fall large flocks can descend […]

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ANNUAL GATHERING OF THE KITES PART 2

Swallow-tailed Kite Aerobatics

I went back to the grass fields in central Georgia on August 25th to see if the Swallow-tailed Kites were still flocking together and fattening up before leaving for southern Brazil. They were still there. They put on first class display of aerobatics. My first post about this special event focused on the birds and […]

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PATIENCE PAYS OFF

Barred Owl Taking Off With Wings Stretched Straight Up

In many of my posts I make a big deal out of being an active birder\photographer. Some would say too big a deal. There are times though that I try to wait for the shot. This is the case in this series of one of our neighborhood Barred Owl pair. She and her mate (I […]

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