PANAMA (cont'd)

A pair of orange-chinned parakeets in a tree.  This specis of bird is very gregarious- large flocks of them fly in the early morning and at dusk across the Gamboa skies.  As they fly they make a variety of chattering-like loud calls.

One day, the sky over Gamboa, went an incredible orange colour.  This preceeded sunset, but was NOT the actual sunset.  Very strange and visually stunning.

A white faced capuchin pokes its head out from between some branches, at head level.  It and I were maybe 6 feet apart.  Shot on Barro Colorado Island- an island created by the flooding of the Panama Canal, where the Smithsonian now has a field site and a lot of tropical research is conducted.

An unknown (but very large: 10 cm in length) grasshopper- shot on Pipeline Road.

A white necked jacobin- the most common hummingbird in Gamboa- sits on a branch just outside my house.

A northern jacana sits on the lilly pads in Gamboa harbour.  This species has very long toes to aid in walking on the pads.  In flight, its flight feathers show a bright yellow.

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