Black-headed Saltator eating Cecropia fruit
at Crystal Paradise Resort, San Ignacio, Cayo, Belize

Black-headed Saltator

White-fronted parrot

White-fronted parrot

White-fronted Parrot

Little Blue Heron
on the road to Aguacate Lagoon Reserve

Bat Falcon

Red-billed Pigeon

Northern Jacana and sandpiper at a sewage lagoon along the highway to Aguacate Lagoon

Solitary Sandpiper

A second Solitary Sandpiper

Immature Northern Jacanas

Tropical Kingbird

Olive-throated Parakeet

Gray Catbird
on bougainvillea at Orange Gallery Gift Shop

Gartered Trogon
'dropping' from wire

Back of Gartered Trogon, showing iridescence and patterns of feathers

Gartered Trogon

Gartered Trogon

Social Flycatcher
in the wet grass of the backyard lawn
at The Orange Gallery, Belize, C.A.

Male Golden-fronted Woodpecker

Magnolia Warbler

American Redstart

Common Tody-Flycatcher

Keel-billed Toucan

Keel-billed Toucan
Note red vent feathers

Keel-billed Toucan in flight

Keel-billed Toucan making its presence known.
Also, note the white rump.

Pale-vented Pigeon and Eastern Meadowlark

Eastern Meadowlark singing

Great Kiskadee (left) and Tropical Kingbird (right)

Magnolia Warbler

Female Amazon Kingfisher
at a bridge crossing a stream

Snowy Egret and Little Blue Heron
at a small pond in Mennonite country

Snowy Egret

Fork-tailed Flycatcher

Bare-throated Tiger-Heron in the grass at the side of the highway

The Bare-throated Tiger-Heron seems alarmed by our attention!

The Tiger-Heron's neck feathers settle a little as he puts some distance between us.

Eastern Meadowlark

Plain-breasted Ground Dove

Female Vermilion Flycatcher

Female Vermilion Flycatcher

Marilyn, Donna, Kannan, Jane and Eric
on the road in Aguacate Lagoon Reserve

Black-headed Trogon
at Aguacate Lagoon Reserve

Rufous-tailed Jacamar

Rufous-tailed Jacamar

Sepia-capped Flycatcher

Sulphur-rumped Flycatcher

Sulphur-rumped Flycatcher

Howler Monkey

Baltimore Oriole
spotted by Marilyn

Gartered Trogon
at Aguacate Lagoon Reserve

Gartered Trogon

As we were leaving the Aguacate Lagoon Reserve we noticed this sign.

Back out on the road, we saw this Crested Caracara

Crested Caracara

Empidonax Flycatcher

Immature Blue-black Grassquit.
Note blue-black feathers coming in on head.

Ruddy Ground Doves

Least Grebe
on a small pond near Midway Diner, Spanish Lookout, Belize,
where we stopped for lunch--a Mennonite settlement

Least Grebe

Adult and immature Tree Swallows

Immature Tree Swallow

One more Adult Tree Swallow

And one more immature Tree Swallow

Back side of adult Tree Swallow
no white rump patch like the Mangrove Swallow

Gray Hawk soaring overhead

Anhinga
In the afternoon, we went to rice fields in the Spanish Lookout area.

What is this blue-black bird with white-tipped feathers?
Melodious blackbird with a couple of white feathers?

Tropical Kingbird with an insect

Bare-throated Tiger-Heron
hiding at the edge of a rice field

Great Black-Hawk

Belted Kingfisher

Black Vulture

Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture

Morelet's Crocodile in the flooded rice field
Distance in inches from eyes to nose
is a good estimate of length in feet

Immature Northern Jacana

Long-billed Dowitcher

Wood Stork

Lesser Yellowlegs in the rice fields

Lesser Yellowlegs

Lesser Yellowlegs

Lesser Yellowlegs

Lesser and Greater Yellowlegs together

Wood Stork

Osprey

Egret-Crocodile stand-off

Pectoral and Least Sandpipers

Pectoral Sandpiper

Least Sandpipers

Least Sandpiper

Least Sandpiper

Barn Swallow, molting

Boat-billed Flycatcher

Cattle Egrets following a tractor

Cattle Egret

Roadside Hawk

Ringed Kingfisher

Ringed Kingfisher

Second Ringed Kingfisher

Pale-vented and Red-billed Pigeons

Mangrove Swallow and Barn Swallows

Mangrove and Barn Swallows

Barn Swallows

Mangrove Swallow
with white over eye

Ruddy Ground-Dove

White-necked Puffbird
Beside the road as we got near Crystal Paradise Resort on our way home

Belize has a lot of speed bumps to slow drivers. Between San Ignacio and Crystal Paradise Resort they have these signs announcing speed bumps which they call "Sleeping Policemen"--in this case, a woman police officer.