Belize Trip - March 2022 - The "South"

[Dave]

Jaguar Creek was a one-night stop - awesome habitat but quite costly. It is a not-for-profit doing good work so that helped offset the costs in our mind . Literally placed deep in a jungle setting.

Red-legged Honeycreeper

Red-legged Honeycreeper at Jaguar Creek by Dave Beeke


Golden-hooded Tanager

Golden-hooded Tanager at Jaguar Creek by Dave Beeke


Spot-breasted Wren

Spot-breasted Wren at Jaguar Creek by Dave Beeke


Green-backed Sparrow

Green-backed Sparrow at Jaguar Creek by Dave Beeke


Ivory-billed Woodcreeper

Ivory-billed Woodcreeper at Jaguar Creek by Dave Beeke


Barred Antshrike

Barred Antshrike at Jaguar Creek by Dave Beeke


Chestnut-colored Woodpecker

Chestnut-colored Woodpecker at Jaguar Creek by Dave Beeke


Any place with toucans flying around is awesome!

Keel-billed Toucan at Jaguar Creek by Dave Beeke


The next two nights were on the beach (especially for family interests sake but there were still birds everywhere!

Roadside Hawk en route

Roadside Hawk at Southern Hwy--Mile 0 to Hopkins by Dave Beeke


Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture

Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture at Placencia Peninsula by Dave Beeke


Collared Aracari

Collared Aracari at Placencia Peninsula by Dave Beeke



Collared Aracari at Placencia Peninsula by Dave Beeke


White Hawk

White Hawk at Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary by Dave Beeke


In the southwest Crystal Paradise Resort has some great habitat and we stayed one night en route to Black Rock Lodge. Their feeders attract some goodies

Yellow-winged Tanager

Yellow-winged Tanager at Crystal Paradise Resort by Dave Beeke


Lesson's Motmot

Lesson's Motmot at Crystal Paradise Resort by Dave Beeke


Northern Potoo

Northern Potoo at Crystal Paradise Resort by Dave Beeke


Black Rock Lodge was great - best memories were finding my 2,000th life bird - Orange breasted Falcon as well as having an epic birding hike where we photographed Singing Quail, Mayan Antthrush, Pheasant Cuckoo, Rose-throated Tanager, and Tody Motmot all in the same hike!

Not the best picture but only the 2nd time ever that a photo of a Singing Quail is on ebird for Belize! Rare opportunity!

Singing Quail at Black Rock Lodge by Dave Beeke


Tody Motmot

Tody Motmot at Black Rock Lodge by Dave Beeke


Pheasant Cuckoo

Pheasant Cuckoo at Black Rock Lodge by Dave Beeke


Rose-throated Tanager

Rose-throated Tanager at Black Rock Lodge by Dave Beeke


After 10 days we headed to the Great Barrier Reef and islands for some snorkeling. On route I photographed world life bird #2,001 - Gray-crowned Yellowthroat. I may have got a bit carried away with pics...


Gray-crowned Yellowthroat at Black Rock Road by Dave Beeke



Gray-crowned Yellowthroat at Black Rock Road by Dave Beeke



Gray-crowned Yellowthroat at Black Rock Road by Dave Beeke



Gray-crowned Yellowthroat at Black Rock Road by Dave Beeke



Gray-crowned Yellowthroat at Black Rock Road by Dave Beeke


This yellowthroat was 30 minutes after the Orange-breasted Falcon - number 2,000. It was too distant to photograph so I took many of the yellowthroat to compensate.

It was off to the island/beach for the final 4 days! A highlight was snorkeling with rays, sharks, turtles, and more. Great fun with the family and very thankful we did it before our kids have finished growing up. It is going so fast as our oldest is working now and our youngest just turned 10.

Hope you enjoyed a peak at the 7,000 bird pictures I came home with. If you ever plan to go to Belize, I highly recommend it. Very easy to do on your own, great food, safe country, awesome habitat variety, 294 species in 14 days of part-time birding, need I say more?

Here is a link to a full trip-report showing all the places we went. If you click "show all details" next to SPECIES OBSERVED, I believe you will get all the detail you can wish for. Just in case anyone wants a deep dive in data!
ebird.org/tripreport/44120

[oldfulica]

May 3, 2022 18:10:36 GMT -8 Dave said:

Jaguar Creek was a one-night stop - awesome habitat but quite costly. It is a not-for-profit doing good work so that helped offset the costs in our mind . Literally placed deep in a jungle setting.

Fantastic series Dave. I was happy to see some of those same birds in Panama.

[Chris]

Thanks for posting Dave. Great photos! Had some time tonight to look at the trip report, such a handy eBird feature.

[birder1942]

What a fantastic trip and great photos. Thanks for sharing! John V