Felipe Carillo Puerto - Part two

Yucatan Parrot - luckily we had these perched otherwise we would have struggled to separate and identify them from White-fronted Parrot nb. yellow lore

    White-fronted Parrot

Rufous-browed Pepper Shrike

 Red Cardinal

   Keel-billed Toucan

 

    Turquoise-browed Motmot

   Tropical Peewee

Turkey Vultures

Everywhere!

Northern Potoo

As previously written we had three separate Potoos on this trip which is unprecedented for us.  We hadn't realised quite how big the Northern Potoo is and it was a spectacular sight watching it catching moths and returning to the same branch each time.  It was also our first attempt at night-time digiscoping  as for the first time in probably 25 years we did not take a SLR camera, this bird was directly above us which made it even more difficult.  Hard to see here but these birds have an enormous mouth with huge gape and massive eyes, always becomes an extension of the branch it rests on making it hard to detect in the day but big eye shine gives it away at night.

Felipe Carrillo Puerto - Part One

After leaving Coba we headed for FCP where we stayed 3 nights at the El Faisan y el Venado at only 45 mex peso a night, very basic but has a good restaurant.  The hotel was situatated only a 5 min drive away from where we wanted to bird the approach road to Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve. The reserve is 1.6 million acres mostly all closed to the public, we birded it from two places, this one at FCP and one other area at Muyil  Unbelieveably during the fortnight we had 3 Northern Potoos, a giant bird when hunting moths.

A basic hotel but you got your own Armadillo!

The approach road to the buffer zone of Sian Kaan - we had Yucatan Nightjar and Yucatan Poorwill here.

Clearings are always good for birds and this garden in the forest was exceptional, birds included; Turquoise-browed Motmot, Blue Bunting, Yucatan and White-fronted Parrot, Aztec Parakeet, Squirrel Cuckoo, Roadside Hawk, Aracari, Red Cardinal, Lineated and Pale-Billed Woodpecker, Rose Throated Becard, Masked and Black Crowned Tityra.....

Coba Part 3

The last of Coba!

Summer Tanager

Turquoise-browed Motmot

Yellow-rumped Warbler

Coba Part 2

We only spent a couple of hours at Coba, arriving mid-morning and leaving after lunch but had plenty of birds in a short space of time..

Green Heron

Limpkin

Northern Jacana

Coba - Part 1

So we flew into Cancun and spent the night in Playa Del Carmen with the sole purpose of being near the ferry to the Isle of Cozumel for our first days birding.  This turned out to be a complete waste of time - it was blowing a gale on Cozumel, everyone was throwing up on the ferry and we only saw 3 birds of any note the Cozumel Emerald, the Westen Spindalis and Ruddy Crake so no photos hence we're straight into day 2 and a stop off at Coba on the way to Fellipe Carrillo Puerta.

Coba Lake

 Anhinga

 Black and White Warbler