Birding Walk with Pat and Gail

For the past two mornings, Pat has gone to a good spot that he found to go boogie boarding. We had heard the news about the volcano erupting in Tonga and the anticipated tsunami waves headed towards the west coast of North America, including this area. Well, the waves never reached tsunami height but they were a bit bigger, a good size for Pat.

Today, Tuesday, we took a break from our new routine, and decided to go for a early morning walk to check out the birds in the area. Armed with our cameras and binoculars, we headed on the road to the river and we were not disappointed.

Jeremy’s son loves looking for birds, insects and animals and had been gifted a Mexican bird book. It was here and we have been using it daily to identify the birds that we see. I also got a compact pamphlet that shows common birds of the area. Great resources.

Our walk took us through the jungle, farmland, palm tree groves and beside a river so we saw a variety of birds. The highlights of our sightings included a wood stork, several caciques and their hanging nests and a tiny green Kingfisher. The photos below are ones that Gail took with her camera.

We came home for breakfast and I sadly realized that I had lost my new sunglasses, an Xmas present from Chris. We weren’t disappointed by the birds but I was very disappointed about my sunglasses. While I made breakfast, Chris took one of the bikes that Jeremy has here and retraced our 8 km walk. He miraculously found them on the edge of the river close to where we had seen the kingfisher. He was my hero and I was a happy camper!Läs mer