We leave tommorrow and it will be sad to depart our little slice of paradise we have enjoyed for the past several days however we have explored all there is to explore and then some. Today I woke up at 6 and walked around the surrounding area of our resort. It was a lot more windy today, so towards the shore, bird activity was limited.
I went for a walk on the tree top nature trail at our place and saw a very interesting looking flycatcher along with a vireo that I thought was either a Mangrove or White-Eyed. I made a pit stop at a bakery to get my dad some coffee and pick up some delicious Cinnamon Rolls.
My parents and I managed to get better looks at both. With better views we established that the vireo in question was a White-Eyed Vireo (no pic lighting/density of trees made for some brutal photography). I captured the Flycatcher and with field guide in hand we have decided upon it being a Dusky-Capped Flycatcher.
The clinching detail is the tail as shown here, all brown with no Rufus fringes (other candidate species have different tail pattern).
We only rented a golf cart for two days, so today we wandered around our area with the target being orioles! Since my first post complaining about orioles I have gotten better with them (thank goodness) and so today we got good looks at a lifer Altamira Oriole! No luck on the Orange Oriole, which are endemic to the Yucatán region and would have been cool to see. Orioles are hard to pin down unless they are coming to a feeder!
My dad and I biked to the San Pedro airport in the early afternoon and were disappointed with the habitat quality there. We would have hoped that the costal swamp there would be a bit nicer but there was trash everywhere you looked. I guess that is what happens when you get hurricanes on a yearly basis.
We saw some new birds for the trip including a Yellow Bellied Sapsucker, Solitary Sandpiper, Tennessee Warbler and Rose-breasted grosbeak.
Sorry bird haters not a lot of content for you today.
It was quite windy at the end of the day also, tried to get this shot of the palm trees swaying in the wind. You can see what incredibly evolved trees they are.
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