Gatun Locks of the Panama Canal

 On Thanksgiving Day our ship sailed from the Western Caribbean Sea into the Panama Canal. The ship went through the Gatun Locks until it arrive in Lake Gatun. 

The land bordering the locks was ripe with birds!

 

Open spaces for raptors and flycatchers to get a meal as well as jungle for more secretive species. Here is a highlight of this wonderful morning and afternoon birding the locks of the Caribbean side of the Panama Canal.

Red-lored Amazons taking flight along the tree line.

Mangrove Swallow perched on the small ladder of a small barge.

 

Yellow-headed Caracara flying and enjoying its breakfast.

Brown Pelican number 20.

Great Kiskadee, male and female.

Greater Ani.

Little Blue heron with a  fresh meal.

Grey-breasted Martins on a tall light pole.

Southern Lapwing.

Tropical Kingbird.

American Kestral.

Tropical Mockingbird on the pool deck of Viking Mars.

Great birding from our ship, even birds on our ship! Fabulous day!