Wednesday, 31 January 2007

Painted Bunting at Singayta 22 January 2007.

This morning we visited the Singayta track not far from San Blas. This turned out to be a very "buggy" trip, with loads of biting insects. In truth it was our first disappointing location bird-wise in Mexico. It seems that the hurricane four years ago took out a lot of the good habitat and there has been some clearance too.
The cold front continued to haunt us the next day too. We started at Mirador de Aguila first thing where, despite foul weather we saw several Military Macaws and some Black-throated Magpie-Jays. We visited Cerro San Juan in the pouring rain for the rest of the day which was very productive for Bumblebee Hummingbird, Rusty-crowned Ground-Sparrow, Grey-capped Woodpecker and some mixed species flocks that kept us busy. There always seems to be something to look at in Mexico, whether it's migrants like Black-throated Grey Warblers from the north or range restricted endemic birds.