We stopped at an office, then started driving and walking the roads in the area. One of the first birds we saw were this pair of Golden-hooded Tanagers.

Golden-hooded Tanager at Cerro Azul, Panama

We saw many private homes of various sizes, but this was the smallest.

Jane, Sara, Mia, Larry, Kannan and Bill search for a bird.

While some folks were looking for birds, Mia, Jane and Steve were photographing a bug on the road.

And what a beautiful bug it was.

Colorful hemiptera/heteroptera on the road at Cerro Azul, Panama

Hemiptera on road at Cerro Azul, Panama

One of many flowers along the road we were walking

Spider web between the wires along the road

Low-growing flowers

We had seen Azteca ants, Leaf-cutting ants and Army ants on our previous days' outings and today we saw a few of these ants on the asphalt road. When we zoomed in on them, they looked metallic.

Metallic-looking ant on asphalt road at Cerro Azul, Panama

Yellow-faced Grassquit

Male Hepatic Tanager

Male Hepatic Tanager with something in its bill

Male Hepatic Tanager with a gecko!

Male Hepatic Tanager at Cerro Azul, Panama

Female Hepatic Tanager

Orchid-looking flowers in a yard at Cerro Azul, Panama

Flowers

Another flower

Red flower, Cerro Azul, Panama

Blue Cotinga

Blue Cotinga in a distant tree, Cerro Azul, Panama

Tarantula Killer or Tarantula Hawk wasp on a flower along the road in Cerro Azul, Panama

Tarantula Hawk

Tarantula Hawk on flower

Tarantula Hawk

Yellow and black butterfly

Yellow and black butterfly

Yellow and black butterfly

Yellow and black caterpillar near butterfly. Coincidence?

Yellow and black caterpillar

Gartered or Violaceous Trogon, Cerro Azul, Panama

Gartered Trogon

Ant Hill

Squirrel Cuckoo, one of two darting from tree to tree

Squirrel Cuckoo

Violet-headed Hummingbird

Blue Morpho, a beautiful butterfly. We saw several, but they just floated around, so were difficult to photograph.

Another butterfly

After walking along the roads, Alex, our guide, took us to a house with many hummingbird feeders that attracted a wide variety of birds.

Female Green Honeycreeper on a hummingbird feeder

Snowy-bellied Hummingbird (L), female Violet-crowned Woodnymph (C), female White-necked Jacobin (R) on a feeder at a private home, Cerro Azul, Panama

Male Shining Honeycreeper

Violet-capped Hummingbird, private home, Cerro Azul, Panama

Male Green Honeycreeper

Male Green Honeycreeper

Female Green Honeycreeper

Female Euphonia

Female Hepatic Tanager

Adult male Bay-headed Tanager

Male Shining Honeycreeper

Male Black-cheeked Woodpecker

Male Black-cheeked Woodpecker

Tiny gecko on a chair on the back porch of private home, Cerro Azul, Panama

Female Green Honeycreeper

Male Red-legged Honeycreeper

Snowy-bellied Hummingbird

One of four Tamarin monkeys that came for the bananas the guides put out in feeders

Tamarin monkey

Female Hepatic Tanager

Male Shining Honeycreeper

Female White-necked Jacobin?

Green Hermit Hummingbird

Violet-crowned Woodnymph hummingbird

Tamarin monkey moving in on bananas

Tamarin monkeys

Snowy-bellied Hummingbird

Snowy-bellied Hummingbird

Male Hepatic Tanager

Tamarin monkey enjoying banana

Violet-crowned Woodnymph hummingbird

Violet-crowned Woodnymph

Female Crimson-backed Tanager

Male Red-legged Honeycreeper

Female Hepatic Tanager and male Thick-billed Euphonia

Female Hepatic Tanager and molting male Red-legged Honeycreeper

Female Scarlet-backed Tanager (L) and female Red-legged Honeycreeper (R), but what is that bird in the middle?

Adult male Bay-headed Tanager

Bay-headed Tanager

Bay-headed Tanager

Clay-colored Thrush

Female Shining Honeycreeper

Rufous-tailed Hummingbird

Molting male Red-legged Honeycreeper

Male Violet-crowned Woodnymph

Male Violet-crowned Woodnymph

The second house we visited for the day: Jane, Sara, Steve, Bill, __, driver and Bob

Skipper

Snowy-bellied Hummingbird

Can you find the seven Red-legged Honeycreepers? Hint: three are females.

Snowy-bellied Hummingbird

Violet-capped Hummingbird

Blue-chested Hummingbird

Green Hermit Hummingbird

Snowy-bellied Hummingbird

Lizard in the garden--Whiptail?

Long-billed Hermit Hummingbird

Violet-crowned Woodnymph Hummingbird

Male Violet-headed Hummingbird

Violet-headed Hummingbird hovering over a Penta flower

Violet-headed Hummingbird

Violet-headed Hummingbird

Violet-headed Hummingbird

Butterfly

Violet-crowned Woodnymph Hummingbird

Is this a Blue-chested Hummingbird? Why does it have the bright pink feet of a Bronze-tailed Plumeleteer?

Same bird with wings outstretched

And another pose

Long-billed Hermit hummingbird

My one photo of the Purple-crowned Fairy hummingbird

Sulphur butterfly on flowers in the yard

A bee with an orange abdomen

Bee with orange abdomen

Another look at the bee

And another

Sulphur butterfly

Female Violet-capped Hummingbird

Long-billed Hermit hummingbird

Green Hermit hummingbird

Another pink-footed hummingbird. Is this the Bronze-tailed Plumeleteer?

Bronze-tailed Plumeleteer?

Bronze-tailed Plumeleteer?

Violet-capped Hummingbird

Violet-capped Hummingbird

Green Hermit

Long-billed Hermit

Long-billed Hermit (L), possible female Violet-capped (C), and male White-necked Jacobin (R) hummingbirds

Long-billed Hermit (L), possible female Violet-capped (C), and male White-necked Jacobin (R) hummingbirds

Long-billed Hermit and female Violet-capped hummingbirds

Female Green Hermit hummingbird

Long-billed Starthroat hummingbird

Female White-vented Plumeleteer?

Butterfly

Some of us took a walk down the trail next to the house to look for the White-tipped Sicklebill hummingbird which likes this Heliconia flower.

Along the way we spotted this White-whiskered Puffbird.

Kannan points out the Heliconia flower the sicklebill hummingbird likes.

Berries on a bush

Berries on a vine

Back in the yard, a butterfly

Skipper

Butterfly

The view from the back porch of the house: the Chagres National Park

Back at Canopy Tower, we could see the Centennial Bridge from the deck.

And the city of Panama on the horizon.

A male Fulvous-vented Euphonia on seed pods of the Cecropia tree

Female Fulvous-vented Euphonia on Cecropia

Panama evening skyline from the deck of the Canopy Tower

Mary and Steve on the deck of Canopy Tower, Panama

Mary and Steve

This hatch in the dome of Canopy Tower was opened to show the interior.

Looking through the floor of the dome into the library/dining area

Looking up at the interior ceiling of the Canopy Tower dome

Sunset our last evening at Canopy Tower, Panama

An odd bug on the deck of Canopy Tower

Looking back at the Canopy Tower building from the outside deck where we had dinner our last night

Argie, Bob, Jane, Jim, Mary, Larry, Sara and Bob at dinner on the deck.

Mary, Cindy, Karan and Kirti, after dinner, compiling the bird list for the day

Karan, Kirti, Kannan, Bob and Larry, completing the day's bird checklist

Debbie, Barbara, Paul, Mia and Jim enjoy a discussion on the deck

Debbie, Barbara, Paul, Mia and Jim

This moth appeared at Cindy's feet while we were compiling the bird count.

Most of the group on the deck the last evening