Then we stopped for lunch. Yes, the day is only half through! This trip was ~packed~. Guess what was in their garden? Well there were birds......
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| buff-throated saltator |
........and more! A group of howler monkeys was hanging around, relaxing and not particularly minding us taking pictures.
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| howler monkeys |
Oh, and more birds!
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| squirrel cuckoo |
This one led us on merry chase.
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| squirrel cuckoo |
And there was this mystery lizard. It's shedding its skin!
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| mystery lizard |
A good-bye parrot and off we go.
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| red-fronted parrotlet |
Then we got to our destination. What a sight! It was salt ponds, with about a zillion shorebirds. There were so many plovers and terns and sandpipers my head started to spin a little. There were oystercatchers and a few herons thrown in for good measure. And even a couple of wood storks - take a look!
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| great blue heron, black-bellied whistling duck |
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| roseate spoonbill |
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| great egret, black-bellied whistling duck |
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| white ibis |
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| sandpipers |
I particularly love this shot. It looks like the great egret is the mom and the stilts are like little ducklings following along behind her. :-)
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| great egret, black-necked stilt |
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| wood stork |
As it got dark the nighthawks came out! There were probably a couple dozen of them, so I started clicking away. But between them being fast and the light being so low this is the best I could do. Two nighthawks in the same frame, not bad!
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| common nighthawk |
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