Before breakfast, we got out to watch the sunrise.
Mary, Jane, Kannan, Betty, Gretta, Marilyn and Donna

Pre-dawn at Bird's Eye View Lodge on the Crooked Tree Lagoon

Sunrise at Crooked Tree

More sunrise

The group we'd been running into at other locations was at
Bird's Eye View too and went on the lagoon tour early in the morning.

Early morning commuters started coming by as we watched.

Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture

Some local fishermen brought in their early morning catch.

Wood Storks, Great Egrets, White Ibis and others started coming in.

A lone Great Blue Heron staked its claim in the shallow lagoon.

A group of Wood Storks go by

...then a group of White Ibis

...then a couple of Great Egrets

Least Sandpiper on the shore in front of us

...then a group of cormorants

...then a group of American White Pelicans

American White Pelicans

Rufous-tailed Hummingbird
at a feeder on the beach

Yellow-lored Parrot
on our pre-breakfast excursion

Acorn Woodpecker

Female Summer Tanager

Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Lineated Woodpecker

Lineated Woodpecker

Lineated Woodpecker

Lineated Woodpecker

Lineated Woodpecker

Lineated Woodpecker

Cashew Tree

Cashew Tree

A family of Yucatan Jays
a cooperative breeding species

Yucatan Jays

Adult Yucatan Jay feeding an immature jay

Then another immature jay begs to be fed

And the adult obliges

Who's next?

Ringed Kingfisher

Streak-headed Woodcreeper
with an insect

Back at the resort, this male Vermilion Flycatcher was on the back fence

Male Vermilion Flycatcher

Back of the head of the Vermilion Flycatcher

Mangrove Swallow

Mangrove Swallow

Russet-naped Wood-Rail
near the shore

Russet-naped Wood-Rail

On our walk after breakfast,
we found this Rufous-breasted Spinetail
which refused to sit still for a photo

Rufous-breasted Spinetail

Female Vermilion Flycatcher
on a nest

Female Vermilion Flycatcher

Vermilion Flycatcher

Female Vermilion Flycatcher on nest

Green Breasted Mango hummingbird
at feeder at Bird's Eye View Lodge,
Crooked Tree Reserve, Belize, C.A.

Rufous-tailed Hummingbird

Rufous-tailed Hummingbird
at flowers at Bird's Eye View Lodge, Belize

Rufous-tailed Hummingbird

Russet-naped Wood-Rail on the beach
at Bird's Eye View Lodge, Crooked Tree, Belize, C.A.

Russet-naped Wood-Rail

Russet-naped Wood-Rail

Boat drive, Michael, gets ready to push off with half our group:
Eric, Jane, Donna, Gretta and Betty.
Kannan, Deb, Mary and Steve were in the other boat with driver Leonard.
Because of the dry season and low water level, they could only carry
half of us in each boat. They expected they would not be able to
travel the creek and lagoon in another three days.

Bird's Eye View Lodge
seen from our boat on Black Creek

Northern Jacana

Female Snail Kite

Immature Northern Jacana

Immature Northern Jacana

Immature Northern Jacana

The female Snail Kite
did not like my attention.

Snail Kite
alighting on another small bush

Social Flycatcher
along the shoreline of Black Creek

Snail Kite

Great Egrets, Snowy Egrets and a Roseate Spoonbill

Wood Storks with a Jabiru

Great Egrets and White Ibis

The egrets and ibis seem to know the Snail Kite isn't after them.

Caspian Tern making a dive

The Caspian Tern came up with a fish.

White Ibis in formation

Eggs of the Apple Snail were on the channel markers and mangrove roots just above the water line.
Snail Kites, Limpkins and Russet-naped Wood-Rails feed on the snails.

Two Roseate Spoonbills in flight

Roseate Spoonbills

Little Blue Heron, Snowy Egrets and Roseate Spoonbill

Spoonbill and egrets

Green Heron

American Pygmy Kingfisher

American Pygmy Kingfisher
Crooked Tree Reserve, Belize, C.A.

American Pygmy Kingfisher

American Pygmy Kingfisher

Mystery bird? Odd Yellow Warbler?

Male American Pygmy Kingfisher

American Pygmy Kingfisher

American Pygmy Kingfisher

Green Heron

Limpkin

Northern Waterthrush

Northern Waterthrush

Northern Jacanas

Yellow-crowned Night-Herons

Yellow-crowned Night-Heron

Female American Pygmy Kingfisher with a fish

Female American Pygmy Kingfisher and fish

Immature Yellow-crowned Night-Heron

Female Green Kingfisher

Female Green Kingfisher

Female Green Kingfisher

Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture

Water lilies

Water lilies

Black-necked Stilt among Snowflake Water Lilies

Black-necked Stilts

Black-necked Stilts on the wing

Black-necked Stilts flying along the lagoon channel ahead of us

Black Vultures

Black-necked Stilts

Black-necked Stilts

Bare-throated Tiger-Heron

Bare-throated Tiger-Heron

Bare-throated Tiger-Heron

Bare-throated Tiger-Heron

Double-crested Cormorant

Double-crested Cormorant

Male Ringed Kingfisher

First glimpse of the Agami Heron

The Agami Heron flew from its perch, around an outcropping and back into another bush at the edge of the water.

The Agami Heron stepped out and gave us all great views.

Agami Heron

Agami Heron in a regal stance

Across the little inlet from the heron, Leonard spotted these Proboscis Bats lined up on the trunk of a small tree at the edge of the water.

Proboscis Bats pointed downward on a tree trunk

Three Proboscis Bats

First glimpse of the Boat-billed Heron

The Boat-billed Heron flew out of one bush and perched briefly atop another.

One of three or four Boat-billed Herons hiding in bushes at the edge of the water

Boat-billed Heron playing peekaboo with us

Morelet's Crocodile

Black Vulture

Black Vulture

Morelet's Crocodile

Black-collared Hawk

Black-collared Hawk

Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture

Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture

Northern Jacana with a fish
Kannan said it's rare for a jacana to eat fish.

Gull-billed Tern

Cashew Tree

Eric's joke: "Crooked Police Tree Station"
as we were leaving Crooked Tree for the ferry to Caye (pronounced 'key') Caulker

On the upper deck of the ferry to Caye Caulker, a 45-minute ride from Belize City

Coming into Caye Caulker at the end of the day

Coming into Caye Caulker