Photos from in and around Canopy Lodge, in El Valle de Antón. The lodge is at about 650m above sea level in a valley surrounded by a caldera. The habitat is mostly cloud forest and the altitude makes the temperature 4 or 5 degrees C off than lowland Panama.
Category: Holidays
Panama: Southern Coclé
These photos were taken on a day trip from Canopy Lodge down the Pacific slope to the ocean at Juan Hombrón. I have separated them because of the different habitats compared to the rest of my trip: open farmland, mangrove and one taken on the beach.
Panama: Canopy Tower
Photos from Canopy Tower in the Soberania National Park near Panama City. The main environments are rain forest, forest canopy and some wetlands in the nearby Canal Zone. The tower itself has an observation deck at canopy level as well as hummingbird feeders.
Danube Delta
A rainy day photographing birds in the Danube delta while on a holiday to Romania and Bulgaria. Highlights were the white-tailed eagles, pygmy cormorants and Pallas’s gulls. We took a boat tour from Tulcea to the area around Mila 23 fishing village and back.
Sri Lanka Endemic Birds
Sri Lankans are rightly proud of their 34 endemic bird species and on our trip we managed to see all except the Green-billed Coucal. I got usable photos of 24 of the species. The junglefowl is the national bird.
Sri Lanka Birds (non-endemic)
Some of the many bird species in Sri Lanka that are not endemic to the country. Most of these photos were taken at Negombo and the Muthurajawela Sanctuary, Aniwilundawa Bird Sanctuary, Wilpattu National Park, Horton Plains National Park, Sinharaja Rain Forest and Lunugamvehera National Park (the ones in the rain).
Sri Lanka Animals
These photos are from a two-week trip to Sri Lanka that Sophie and I took in February 2025. Unfortunately, we didn’t get any unobstructed leopard sightings, although we did see three different males. Most of the photos were taken in Wilpattu National Park (including the leopards), Udalawale and Lunugamvehera National Parks (elephants) and Bundala NP Read More
Texas: Rio Grande Valley
This post , includes photos from two days in the Rio Grande Valley, starting with the Sabal Palm Sanctuary (and its plantation house), then moving on to Estero Llano Grande State Park, Bentsen-Rio Grande State Park, and Edinburg Scenic Wetlands. The parakeets were taken in a shopping mall parking lot in McAllen, my last stop Read More
Texas: South Padre Island
This afternoon I was at South Padre Island, first the Birding and Nature Center and then the Isla Blanca beach. This was the best weather of my trip!
Texas: Laguna Atascosa NWR
The first six photos were taken at a boat ramp along Texas Highway 48, then the rest of the morning was spent at Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge, near Port Isabel.