As I’ve written ahead of in this web page, I imagine even a foul day birding to nonetheless be an ideal stroll within the woods. And this Monday was once no longer a impressive birding day. I had stayed up too past due on Sunday evening doing church accounting, so I were given a past due get started on Monday morning. (The truth that Mexico just lately deserted sunlight saving time has made this downside extra critical.) It was once drizzling on and off all morning, and not sunny, so the birds weren’t lively in any respect. That drizzle, and one bout of rain, made nice pictures each not going, in addition to fairly dangerous.
However I promised to not bitch about any ranges of rain on this rags-to-riches yr, and I’m no longer. Since our summer season monsoon season in spite of everything started, we’ve got had 31 days with rain, and best 7 with out. Streams are in spite of everything flowing once more, and our bodies of water are slowly coming again to lifestyles. I like to look the brand new enlargement on our dozens of oak species. It’s like a northern autumn, however down south, and in July:
Mushrooms had been additionally in every single place:
Maximum vegetation are nonetheless of their vegetative word, however one little plant gave the impression to be in a large hurry to bloom. It’s 3 or 4 leaves, after which a few hundred plants! The second one plant captivated me with its ornamental leaves.
As so continuously occurs after I cross birding, I used to be followed by way of a few native canine. I’m now their new bestie. As so continuously occurs.
Canine are a lot more affected person with the stop-and-go rhythm of my birding walks, than my spouse is.
And a couple of birds did present me some pictures. The Mexican race of Bushtits all the time glance rakish with their black mask.
A short lived combined flock revel in incorporated this Grace’s Warbler, which is considered one of our reasonably few resident warblers down right here. (Against this, we obtain many wintry weather migrant species.)
A circle of relatives of endemic juvenile Noticed Wrens truly knew methods to sing their own praises their heat brown colours. The adults recreation extra somber sun shades of grey.
The most productive sighting of the day, even if experimenting with a digicam I’ve but to dominate didn’t give me my highest picture for the day, was once a feminine Mountain Trogon. Trogons are all the time more uncomplicated to listen to than they’re to look, so I used to be satisfied to get a photograph (any picture) of this hen.
Since no spot presented an ideal collection of birds, I went forward and visited a number of websites of hobby to me: 3 spots uphill of San Miguel del Monte, a reforesting nursery downhill of the similar, and a close-by reservoir which as soon as once more has some water in it. So this was once no longer the best day of birding I’ve ever had. But it surely was once nonetheless an ideal stroll within the woods.