OK, this post if mostly for Dad, to make him even more jealous of me than he was when I posted the photos of the Californian condors.
Note that some of the photos from this post were taken by Dwain, my room mate. He has a better camera than I do, even if he doesn't really know how to use it most of the time!
Migrating raptors! Thousands of them! We saw this driving to Suchitoto and several times there. Our expert bird guide on the tours (I've forgotten his name - there are too many names for me to remember everyone now!) says that these massive groups consist of: Black vultures, Turkey vultures, Broadwing hawks, Swainson hawks, Osprey and Suntail hawks. I will leave it as an exercise for the reader to decide which speck is which.
Two birding trips in Suchitoto, out on the lake, which is frequented by many migrating species as well as the native ones. The first trip was on a boat at sunset, the second in a kayak at dawn. I'm not going to separate. Birds seen include: Neotropic Cormorants, Mangrove Swallow, Barn Swallow, Snowy/Yellow Fingered Egret, Great Egret, Great Kiskidee, Snail Kite, Osprey, Groove Billed Ani, Great Blue Heron, Black Crowned Night Heron, Green Heron, Whistling Ducks, Northern Jakana, Hummingbirds, Spotted Sandpiper, Limpkin, (Turquoise Browed?) Motmot.
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| Snail Kite |
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| Great Blue Heron |
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| Groove Billed Ani |
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| Mangrove Swallow |
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| Black Vulture |
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| Snail Kite |
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| Great Kiskidee |
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| Kiskidee nest? |
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| More Kiskidee |
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| Egrets and Cormorants |
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| Osprey! |
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| Limpkin - quite rare apparently |
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| Spotted Sandpiper |
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| Whistling Ducks |
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| Osprey |
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| No clue what this one is! |
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| Mangrove Swallow |
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| Egret with a catfish! |
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| Motmot |
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| Hummingbird |
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| Black Vulture |
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| Osprey |
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| Osprey looking |
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| Osprey sitting |
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| Osprey leaving |
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| Whistling Duck |
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| Whistling ducks in flight |
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| Can't find this bird in the book! |
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| Mangrove Swallow |
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| Lesser Spotted Dwain |
Hi Martin, Great bird pics. Hanging woven nest is probably that of Montezuma's Oropendola and "No clue" is a juvenile cormorant, can't tell which species from this photo. I did not attempt identification of the humming birds - there are over 300 species and my books cover on a few and only for other parts of the Americas. Keep them coming. Love Dad
ReplyDeleteWow Moo, looks like a fabulous trip, insanely jealous of you seeing all those birds!
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