{"id":308,"date":"2009-02-01T08:48:05","date_gmt":"2009-02-01T14:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saskatchewangypsy.wordpress.com\/?p=308"},"modified":"2009-02-01T08:48:05","modified_gmt":"2009-02-01T14:48:05","slug":"for-the-birds-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/2009\/02\/01\/for-the-birds-2\/","title":{"rendered":"For the birds"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Early morning on the harbour of Rio Lagartos.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Early in the morning on our second day travelling with Roger and Suzanne, we were on the water by seven as we wanted to get as many photos as possible during out three-hour journey through the saltwater lagoons of the protected biosphere.\u00a0 The cameras were busy before we even left the harbour as we caught a number of beautiful images of white cranes, brown pelicans, white pelicans and magificent frigates.\u00a0 In the photo above, two male magnificent frigate birds are perched on the masts of two boats while a number of brown pelicans are roosting on the rails of one of the boats.\u00a0 In the background you can see the shoreline buildings of Rio Lagartos.<\/div>\n
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Female Magnificent Frigate<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\"dsc03119\"<\/a>The Magnificent Frigate birds are quite interesting.\u00a0 We see them often by our villa soaring high in the air, gliding swiftly looking huge like hunters in the sky.\u00a0 The female has a white head and throat while the male has a black head with a red throat which can be inflated.\u00a0 Of course this is how he attracts the female.\u00a0 It’s not much different for humans – we men strut around trying to get the attention of the women.\u00a0This bird on the right\u00a0could be\u00a0a Yellow-Crowned Night Heron.\u00a0 If not, someone out there might be able to help me give it a name.<\/div>\n

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A spoon-billed bird<\/p><\/div>\n

\"dsc03158\"<\/a>This beautiful bird on the left,\u00a0sat so still for me while I took a number of photos of him while Ismael, our guide held the boat fairly still letting us drift closer and closer.\u00a0 The bird on the right is a Bare-throated Tiger Heron.\u00a0 And, he is some strange looking bird.\u00a0 He first appeared normal sitting on the branch.\u00a0 Then he stretched out his neck and looked as if he was only neck.\u00a0\u00a0 I got quite a few photos of this one and a few other Tiger Herons.<\/div>\n

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\"dsc03164\"<\/a>\"dsc03167\"<\/a>Of course, I took way too many photos to post one of each kind here, so I am only focusing on a few of them, those that I found the most interesting and those with the better focus.For example, this heron which I think is called the Tri-colored Heron.\u00a0 It was hard to get close to him for a decent photograph without him taking off and leaving only a blur in the photo or just a part of the bird.\u00a0 I did get two photos of a Perigrin Falcon, but it was not very close which meant the bird was slightly out of focus in comparison with the trees closer to me which came out in sharp detail.\u00a0The bird on the right is from the cormorant family I believe.\u00a0 It’s beak is used to spear the fish when the bird is hunting.\u00a0 I will continue to research the birds of Mexico to find out exactly what it is called.<\/div>\n
\"dsc03177\"<\/a>\"dsc03179\"<\/a>And this strange looking bird is a Boat-Billed Heron.\u00a0 It is usually active only in the night, so getting his photo was a somewhat lucky break.While we were searching out birds in the trees and branches, Ismael was keeping his eyes focused on finding us a crocodile.\u00a0 When he finally spotted one, at some distance, he had us train our cameras to the shore where we saw a few logs floating.\u00a0 Only to discover that one of the logs was a crocodile.\u00a0 We ended up being so close we could have reached over the side of the boat and touched him, not that any of us were actually going to even try.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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\"Common<\/a>

Common Black Hawk catching fish for dinner.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Along the way, we also saw four Common Black Hawks.\u00a0 Ismael had us ready to shoot pictures of a hunting hawk before he threw a fish into the lagoon not too distant from our boat.\u00a0 This is the shot I captures, the final photo before tomorrow’s story about flamingos.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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