Tuesday:   The Research Station is beautiful  We are living in the middle of gardens of plants from all over the world.  Our cabin is high and we have a porch looking through the forest out throught the jungle---In the evening the setting sky is orange and frogs and crickets serenade,while morning the birds wake us.  Breakfast is at 6:30  but it is light and the dining room with decks is a lovely spacious place to eat and meet with others.  Food is excellent--healthy with fruit and vegetables----love the papaya and mango-----had star fruit drink--too sweet, but the iced tea was different and good ,    After Scott went thru safety and orientation,  we had a naturalist walk led by Rodo who gave us a tour of the garden, emphasizing certain trees, such as the strangler fig----being the largest in the garden, looking at undersides of big leaves for bats who might be sleeping there, drumming on the trunk of trees which store water----When I traveled here years ago I said I wanted to return to study the trees and tropical vegetation----and here I am, so I hope to meet with Rodo sometime to learn more and access the herbarium.  During the walk we saw a motmot sitting still on a branch of a tree,  black vultures and swallows in the sky,  heard a trogon, and then several chakalacas (large birds something like turkeys landing in the trees)  which my student group wrote down on our bird list later.  Later in the group we went out on the porch of the dining area where there's a bird feeder and were able to identify many colorful birds-----iridescent green honeycreepers;  several tanagers,  thrushes, and a black one with a scarlet back-----but the blue capped motmot was the most breathtaking with blue cap, green under chin ---all the colors of the rainbow  ---with a long tail.  Tomorrow we'll spend time trying to identify which of 60 hummingbirds we see.  Thank goodness Scott has provided us with bird books.  This evening Ngobe and Bugle  tribe members from Pananama came to participate with us during the next week.  Everyone introduced themselves---all students moved by having so many indigenous voices heard.