I took an early stroll along a local lane, I didn't see much but heard two Spectacled Owls calling, a few Tanagers, some Mealy Parrots, Bananaquit, the Pale-billed Woodpecker with the punk hair style shown below. The load call kiss-ka-dee rung out from several places and several Hummingbirds buzzed passed me without stopping to give their names.
On the way back to the Hotel I stopped to watch more parrots and found Thick-billed Euphonia in the same tree, see picture below.
Thick-billed Euphonia (female)
As it was our last day and we were staying next to the famous National park it would have been rude not to visit. So at 9am we entered the park which has recorded 184 mammals since it opened. We saw 6! Both the Two and Three Toed Sloths, Red Brocket Deer, Raccoon, White-chinned Capuchin and Howler Monkeys. There were very few birds on show but we did find: Shining honeycreeper (new species), Baltimore Oriole (male Shown below), Chestnut Sided Warbler, Tennessee Warbler, Fiery-billed Aracari, Golden-naped Woodpecker (new species).
BALTIMORE ORIOLE- MALE
GOLDEN-NAPED WOODPECKER (MALE)
The park backs onto a fantastic white-sand beach, it looks like a scene from the film 'The Beach',
white sand, palm trees, blue sea and ......rain clouds. We manged an hour or so on the beach constantly being pestered by Raccoons, they wanted to raid the picnic box.
Rain started about 3pm as usual, so we departed and on the way out of the reserve we found a roosting Lesser Nighthawk (new species), it was too dark and wet to try to photograph it. The rest of day was spent sheltering from a tropical downpour that is persisting as I write this at 6pm.
No comments:
Post a Comment