Tuesday 29 January 2013

Rio Mono and Bayano Lake Bridges, Panama

My final full day with Gonzalo, who has been an excellent guide throughout,
but first an advert. If you have any dreams of visiting Panama, I strongly recommend the above hotel at Torti.
and so to the bridges, and if all our days stated like this the world would look even rosier. The Mono River at this time is no more than a trickle, the bridge is only a few feet long and our timing could not have been better. As we looked over the parapet, there below hunting in what water there was swam a
GIANT RIVER OTTER
Only time to rattle off 3 shots before it sprang from the river and disappeared into the jungle. Both Gonzalo and I estimated the beast to have been in the region of 6 feet long!
CRANE HAWK
BUTTERFLY/MOTH
RUFOUS-WINGED ANTWREN
Could be a CINNAMON WOODPECKER??
Another Can't Remember!
BLUE DACNIS male
RED-RUMPED WOODPECKER
TURKEY VULTURE
AVACADO
Long-tailed Hawk-Moth?
FOREST FLOWER
more FOREST FRUITs
DRAGONFLY
YELLOW-GREEN VIREO
BLACK-TAILED TROGON
DUSKY ANTBIRD
It's been a long time coming
LEAST GREBE
Additions
WHITE-EARED CONEBILL, CRANE HAWK, RUFOUS-WINGED ANTWREN, RED-RUMPED WOODPECKER, BLACK-BILLED FLYCATCHER, PIED WATER TYRANT, DUSKY ANTBIRD, JET ANTSHRIKE, LEAST GREBE, YELLOW-GREEN VIREO.
GIANT RIVER OTTER