Saturday 26 March 2011

Not Many left now.........

Masked Tityra: seen several times





Melodious Blackbird: Common and very vocal








Tropical Kingbird: Common everywhere






Red-Billed Pigeon




Wood Thrush: Very skulky, just one seen





Golden-Fronted Woodpecker






White-Fronted Parrot: Common and very noisy....



More from Mexico

Bronzed Cowbird: pair and a single male seen






Blue Grosbeak: Couple of individuals seen








Yellow Breasted Chat: one seen, very skulky large warbler






Plain Chachalaca: quite large game bird living in tops of trees!








Some favourites

Rufous-Browed Peppershrike: fairly common often seen in pairs.








This Squirrel cuckoo was one of three seen in and around the golf course.















One species i did want to find was Turquoise-browed Motmot and did on my first full day in Mexico just outside the Hotel main gate in some dudes back garden, thinking this was easy to find i didn't see another until my last day of ten night trip, what a superb bird known to locals as the clock bird for its pendulum like twitching of its tail.






Friday 25 March 2011

Water Birds

Blue-Winged Teal: common on the golf course pools


Green Heron




Least Grebe







Great Egret




This Royal Tern was fishing just off the beach

More from Mexico


Brown Jay: common seen in small flocks



Green Jay: Very smart birds, also seen in small groups






Yucatan Jay: fairly common seen in flocks of upto 20 birds, adults have black bills and lacks the yellow eyering










Violaceous Trogon: most trogon species often hard to see dispite there size




Black-Headed Trogon

Tuesday 22 March 2011

Hummingbirds

Took me five days of searching until i came across my first bird (buff bellied) then on the penultimate day saw three birds, and having trouble identifying one if anyone has any knowledge.



Buff-Bellied Hummingbird






Unidentified ??


Cinnamon Hummingbird

Flycatchers

Difficult to ID the larger flycatchers as many are only distinguished by song, but im assuming this is one of the commoner species as it was seen in the main street.


Dusky-Capped Flycatcher


Least Flycatcher




Social Flycatcher: like a small version of Kiskadee often seen in small flocks hence the name.








Great Kiskadee

Raptors

It seems every country Ive travelled to i have managed to see Osprey and Peregrine at that was the case in Mexico, along with Roadside Hawk, Grey Hawk, Common Black Hawk and Turkey and Black vulture's.



Osprey






Turkey Vulture











Grey Hawk





Grey Hawk juv (i think)








Saw at least half a dozen Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl's sometimes Catbird and Mockingbird giving them away.