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Mar 18, 2011

Birthdays and birds in Cozumel

My wife and I just returned from Cozumel, along with our two daughters, two sons-in-law, four grandchildren, and another set of grandparents.   We celebrated my wife's birthday and the birthday of one of our sons-in-law.   I'm very happy to report a good time was had by all.   I saw appproximately 50 species of birds during the trip, of which about half were life-birds for me.   I have finally reached the 400-mark on my life list!   Below are  some of the birds I photographed in Mexico.
Black-necked Stilts

Jacana
Jacana ( juvenile )
White Ibis ( immature/1st spring )
Tricoloured Heron ( immature )
Great Egret ( breeding plumage )
Little Blue Heron ( immature )
Snowy Egrets ( plus ibises and heron )
Caspian Tern
My next blog will include pictures of some smaller birds and iguanas.   Please comment if you wish.
BtheB                                                                                        All photos by BarrytheBirder

2 comments:

Εφη Μηδιατη said...

terrific collection of birds.you are lucky to live in the open country,you see such beauties.i would think that Cozumel is in France but must be in America.be well.till next time.i am mostly on Facebook so i neglect my dashboard on Blogger.

Εφη Μηδιατη said...

you are happy people having such good and big family and celebrating and travelling.when we were young with my husband and one boy that we have we traveled often.we were in London,Paris,Austria,Switzerland,Italy,Norway,Finland,Denmark,Sweden,Bulgaria.now my son is 43 years old,unmarried and the 3 of us have one lap each.they get films out of the Web and burn them into dvds which we see at nights.i'll be in touch.so long.