Birds of Paradise

That river/lagoon with the crocodiles looked like a likely spot for bird watching so the next morning we got up early and went for a walk along the river. 

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The path was full of locals and vacationers jogging and walking their dogs.

Right away we found a tree full of yellow-winged caciques, greater kiskadees, topical and thick-billed kingbirds.

  One of the first birds we spotted was this ferruginous pygmy owl.  We saw it every day we walked the river.

I spotted a cinnamon hummingbird, a lifer and the Bird of the Day.

The next day we found this rufous-crowned mot-mot quietly resting on a low hanging branch.

There were some beautiful big trees along the path.  

This one had pink blossoms.

The riverbed was full of snowy egrets, black-necked stilts and various herons,  including this bare-throated tiger-heron.

Other common birds included golden-cheeked woodpeckers, streaked-backed orioles and some snowbirds on their winter  vacation like yellow and Wilson's warblers, and blue-gray gnatcatchers, which we've seen in Arizona and southern Ontario. .

 New birds for us were rose-throated becards, cinnamon-bellied saltator, white-tipped and red-billed doves.

We ran into a fellow birder on vacation from Longpoint, Ontario, where he'd worked for years as a biologist in the bird observatory we'd visited last May.