My friend “Tooki”

Monday, 13. August 2007 by Sharon Brown

My home for nine days in Boquete was at the “Villa Marita”.  It is a wonderful lodge-type resting place with quaint little cabins, a wonderful owner (Senor Rodrigo), attentive staff, and beautiful birds....which include (2) naughty, but sweet parrots, and my new friend “Tooki”.  I had never been around Tucan birds before, and was amazed how beautiful, calm, and funny they are.  Tooki would be up high in a tree...seeming as if he was wanting to hide from us...and when I would talk to him, he would hop to a different part of the tree and hide behind some branches and leaves....as if to avoid looking at us.  I could see his little eye looking down at us through the branches.  Today he flew over to the table where I was eating breakfast, and began helping himself to the left-over egg scraps, and dunked his big beak into my cup of coffee.  He is such a sweetheart!  Our family is thinking that we would like to get a Tooki bird when we live in Panama.