Yucatan Hummingbirds

So the last post and what better way to finish with what I think of as the iconic bird family of the Americas - Hummers!

Canivets Emerald

Cinnamon Hummingbird

Wedge-tailed Sabrewing

and finally Mexican Sheartail

 

and the obligatory sunsets with Pelicans

So that was our Mexican trip and these are my final thoughts - easy travelling and navigating on good roads but watch petrol station attendants who don't zero back the pump we were had! take enough cash everything was expensive and we struggled to find a cashpoint which worked, take insect repellant mosquitoes everywhere and we would strongly recommend carrying Beealert(see earlier post), take a fieldguide to North American warblers as these are not covered in Mexican fieldguide.  It was a breath of fresh air to see that there is still somewhere in the world that has vast quantites of forest cover lets hope it stays that way - the people are friendly and the birding is fabulous we recommend that you go!

An assortment!

Great Blue Heron

Common Black Hawk

Laughing Falcon

Spider Monkey

 Vermillion Flycatcher

Lesser Roadrunner

The hardest fought for bird of the whole trip - it was while we were looking for Roadrunners that we were attacked by bees, we had allowed three days at Rio Lagartos to give us a good chance of seeing one but by the end of day two we knew that left us only one dawn in which we stood any chance so we resorted to hiring Diego Nunez of BirdingYucatan for three hours to take us out.  It was only in the last 5 minutes that Wayne spotted this one on the track in front of the car so this shot was very much a desperate point and shoot whilst getting out of a car kind of image.

Incidently this was only minutes away from where we had the bee attack!

Yucatan Bobwhite

Really wanted to see these and wasn't disappointed - a great bird, the first to sing at dawn..

Yucatan Wren

A big Wren!

Rio Lagartos - Part three Frigates!

Magnificent Frigatebird are just that - quite magnificent, spent hours watching them chasing fishing boats, very difficult to digiscope!

Rio Lagartos - Part two

American White Pelican

Brown Pelican

Birding Rio Lagartos - Part One

Apart from the bee incident (see earlier post!) we enjoyed the birding at Rio Lagartos particularly these Boat-billed Herons, a bird I have always wanted to see.  How Wayne found these I do not know - in total we had 10 birds peeping through the mangroves.

Oddments

A few images which don't fit elsewhere!

American Flamingoes at Rio Lagartos

Not sure what this is but very pretty

Iguana

Rio Lagartos, always on the lookout

The camera that took all the bird photos - Canon S120!

Tullum

 
You meet lots of characters when birding, these two were adorable!