Lamanai Day 3 Part 1 - Poor Views and Great Views

We woke up inappropriately early today in order to get on the boat and over to the Lamanai savannah for the first cracks of light. 

Some waders getting ready to depart from their roosts.

Driving down the creek in a boat flushed the occasional Heron or Kingfisher and one of these herons happened to be the Agami Heron. It flew in front of the boat and then behind some trees where it landed, sadly for us, out of sight. The whole ordeal lasted 3 seconds. It is a fascinating bird with a very large beak and gorgeous colours and definitely would have liked to have a longer and better view of the bird however I will take it over not seeing it at all.

The savannah itself is a tremendous habitat for all sorts of plants and animals. Christian told us that the Maya people would use many plants for various medicinal uses. Animals found in the savannah include Wild Horses, Armadillo, Jaguar and deer. I tried to take photos of as many plants as I could, we will see if I found anything interesting.

Here is our old friend poison wood. The sap is the thing that you should avoid FYI.

This is a Botteri's Sparrow, a recluse Dry Grassland bird.

The Sparrow along with this Black Throated Bobwhite (Yucatán Bobwhite) were the highlights.

I have never seen a bobwhite of any kind before. So it was nice to see one. However did not hear it's classic bob-WHIIITE vocalization.

Plant life. I know nothing about plants so commentary is rather lacking sorry.

White Fronted Parrots were abundant flying across the landscape.

We even saw one Yellow Lored Parrot which was an excellent find by Christian.

I love Vermillion Flycatchers, they are so cute and small.

In the late morning I went for a largely unproductive walk as it is so darn hot as soon as the sun is up. 

This White-Necked Puffbird was quite charming.

I enjoyed watching it and then later this Female Gartered Trogon.

They are very similar acting birds despite looking so different.

Today was an action packed day so I will follow up with part 2!