An anhinga  (also called the snake bird) catching a fish. Wakodahatchee Wetlands, Boynton Beach, Florida. Feeding fish to the young a...

Wood Stork at Green Cay, Boynton Beach, Florida.  Purple swamphen at Green Cay -- this individual is home-grown but the species was i...

A Wooly Possom that we saw on our night adventure last Wednesday in Panama. Florida! We flew here from Panama yesterday. The chaos in cu...

Above is a night monkey, which we saw peering out of its hole in a tree late this afternoon. I wasn't even aware of this species until...

Capybaras are so intriguing -- the largest rodent species on earth! I really wanted to see a capybara, and today, our last birdwatching da...

Favorite bird of the day: the Great Jacamar. We watched birds for 11 hours today, along the Pipeline Road parallel to the Panama Canal. ...

We are seeing lots of great things ... click on the photos to see my Flickr photos, and watch this space for more birds and animals. Above...

A 3-toed sloth with a baby.  An agouti (a local rodent) with a nut in its mouth.  A coati crossing the road. (A member of the racc...

White-necked Jacobin Hummingbirds.  Late this afternoon, we arrived at the Canopy Tower, an old radar station in the tropical fores...

Last night's dinner. West-Indian curries are distinctive and delicious. The Indian spices and spice blends they use were introduced ...

All the while that I need to be packing and preparing for a trip next week, I find myself daydreaming about cooking and baking. Reading reci...

How many kinds of tacos are there? I'd heard of tacos al pastor and fish tacos, but I learned about a lot of other tacos in the all-e...

“The greatest thing on earth is to have the love of God in your heart, and the next greatest thing is to have electricity in your house.”...

Whole Foods had a sale on Whole Snappers, so that's what we had for dinner last night. After filling it with aromatics and wrappin...

A Traiteur now on Rue du Commerce, Paris, 15th arrondissement. The word traiteur can mean a seller of ready-made food or a caterer. Dur...