Coronado, Panama May, June & July

I haven't spent much time on our daily walks/hikes, but between trips we walk on the beach and hike in the dry forest here in Coronado. The forest has greened up now that the wet season has begun. The burned areas from the fire are starting to sprout. One area that has always been thick with vegetation now looks like a swamp. Dragonflies and frog eggs are there now as well. We are wondering when a caiman will make an appearance. LOL

it's almost a pond

 frog eggs

We saw a coyote the other day and it was so tall that we initially thought it was a deer. It ran as soon as we saw it so we didn’t get any pictures of this one. We also saw an anteater climbing a tree and it’s been way over a year since we have seen any in the dry forest.

Both of the Whooping Motmot nests have young ones. We can hear them cooing in there. The nest just looks like a hole in the bank and if you didn’t know what they were, you’d just walk right past them. Here are some photos after the young have left the nest and are learning to be on their own. They don't get the "racket" tails until later.

 adult Blue-crowned Motmot

 young Blue-crowned Motmot

Here are a few other shots from Sendero Eisenmann.

 young Rufous-browed Peppershrike

 Striped Cuckoo

 "attack spider" Instead of scurrying away, it jumped up in the air and turned around to face us.

 Lance-tailed Manakin

 Common Tody Flycatcher

 Mouse-colored Tyrannulet?

 Red-eyed Virero

 Baltimore Oriole

 immature Baltimore Oriole

 Short-tailed Hawk

 Common Pauraque (yes, there is a bird there)

 Lance-tailed Manakin

 Hummingbird Moth

 Hummingbird Moth

 White-tailed Kite

 Blue-black Grassquit

 immature Lance-tailed Manakin male

immature Tennessee Warbler?

May flew by too fast for a group lunch, but we did find time for a couple of lunches with friends.

A few shots on the beach:

Walks around the neighborhood:

 hot dog in a small cave for shade

 Orange-chinned Parakeet

 Yellow-headed Caracara (there was a pair with 1 juvenile)

Orange-chinned Parakeet

We have been busy getting used to our new computers and getting everything transferred from the old ones. We also tested our snorkel gear in the pool and the new Go Pro. They seem fine, but we’ll see after our first ocean snorkel. (they worked well on Contadora Island)

 testing snorkel gear in roof-top pool

Greg testing the Go Pro in the pool

In June we had a group lunch at Cholo's Mexican Restaurant and in July or group tried a newly opened restaurant named Shawarma & Burgers (or something like that). We enjoyed our Middle Eastern choices.

We leave in a couple days for 3 nights on San Blas Islands to celebrate Greg's birthday! Snorkeling, hiking and probably we will see some birds.

Until next time....