Bailed out by Belize again…

It sure it beautiful out now, and it was nearly as warm this morning in Estabrook Park, but the clouds were thick, and it even sprinkled for a bit. Worse, none of the critters wanted their pictures taken today. Thus, I am forced to resort to more recent trip pictures. Sorry about that.

We’ve seen this little cutie, a black phoebe, a couple of times before, but this time it was at Big Rock Falls in western Belize.

I only saw my first semipalmated plover this summer at McKinley Beach in Milwaukee, and here’s one on Caye Caulker.

We’ve seen palm warblers nearly every spring in Estabrook, and here’s one more but also on Caye Caulker this time.

I saw my first tropical kingbird just last February in Guatemala, but here’s a much nicer picture of one, and you guessed it, on Caye Caulker.

We had a pied-billed grebe on the pond in Estabrook for weeks this fall, and one of these could be that same bird, as far as I know, but at Crooked Tree Lodge instead.

The one time a limpkin was in Estabrook was the same weekend that I was in Sedona, and I had to run up to Kletzsch Park to find one in Wisconsin. At the Crooked Tree Lodge in Belize, this one came nearly to my front door.

Finally, the limpkin was not the only snail hunter at Crooked Tree Lodge, and here’s a snail kite gliding over the shoreline, whom I haven’t seen since Brazil.

Lastly, thanks to everyone who came out for the Estabrook Park cleanup this morning. My buddy, Mike, who spotted the nesting hummingbird for us, brought his waders, so we spent the two hours getting a few more tires and a lot more trash out of the river between the two islands. Yay!