Mexico 1: Animals + Birds

[Dark Star]

Okay I have a few Me-hi-can shots to process - I'm also suffering jet lag - hence up and working on these since 4 am

Here's some wildlife :D More later I hope!

1) Little Yellow Bird (ID anyone?)

http://www.darkstarimages.co.uk/general/animals01.jpg

2) Redhead

http://www.darkstarimages.co.uk/general/animals05.jpg


3) Iguana

http://www.darkstarimages.co.uk/general/animals11.jpg

4) Macaws

http://www.darkstarimages.co.uk/general/animals16.jpg

5) ID anyone?

http://www.darkstarimages.co.uk/general/animals18.jpg

6) More Yellow Birds

http://www.darkstarimages.co.uk/general/animals21.jpg

7) No idea what this is but its big!

http://www.darkstarimages.co.uk/general/animals24.jpg

8) Iguana

http://www.darkstarimages.co.uk/general/animals28.jpg

9) Golden Bird

http://www.darkstarimages.co.uk/general/animals30.jpg

[ekimeno]

Great shots - unfortunately I'm no expert of birds, so can't ID any for you, though I will say that your yellow birds in no. 6 is my fav shot - cracking! :thumbs:

[marky_h]

Good set John - can't help on the ID's, I'm afraid! Great leathery skin textures on the iguana shots, but the pick for me is the macaws - looks like the one on the left is a parent, gently chiding the youngster on the right :). Lovely colours too. Were these 'all in the wild'?

[Dark Star]

Thanks Mike!

Good set John - can't help on the ID's, I'm afraid! Great leathery skin textures on the iguana shots, but the pick for me is the macaws - looks like the one on the left is a parent, gently chiding the youngster on the right :). Lovely colours too. Were these 'all in the wild'?

Ta Mark, 'fraid these weren't quite in the wild as such - the smaller birds and larger iguana were to be found all over our resort roaming free (so semi wild I guess)

Macaws and herony bird were at Xel Ha - a kind of nature reserve.

The Macaws normally accompanied photographers - more of those later!

And the large gull type bird was to be seen all over the beach areas.

[Duckydoodle]

Hope you had a lovely time. Great set of shots John. The texture and sharpness of the iguana is wonderful :thumbs:

[Dark Star]

Hope you had a lovely time. Great set of shots John. The texture and sharpness of the iguana is wonderful :thumbs:

Thanks Maureen it was great - a few too many cloudy days with flat light :( but otherwise fantastic! :thumbs:

[Just Dave]

nice set of shots John :clap:

[Cobra]

Great images John!
Love the Iggy head shot :thumbs:
I'm pretty sure #5 is one of the "night herons" ( theres a lot of them)

[dixon]

Here goes, wish me luck :lol:

2) Looks to be a Golden Olive Woodpecker (although the colours dont come through as it's a greeny colour in real life)

5) Is a Green Heron

7) Is a Frigate Bird

9) Is a Yellow-Backed Oriole

Hope this helps a little bit ;)

Cheers
dixon

[Janice]

Very nice set, John. Mustve been lovely there seeing all of these. Nice to see something different. :thumbs:

[Dark Star]

Thanks for the kind comments folks and thanks for the IDs dixon! I guessed some would know :D


And yes Janice, you're right, it was great seeing so many different creatures - the complex we were at was crawling with iguanas !!!

[oldgit]

Good set, well taken and interesting to look at

[InaGlo]

Some very colourful feathery stuff there John ... hope you had a fab time. :thumbs:

[jgs001]

Great set of shots, looks like a good place to go.

[Dark Star]

Thanks Paul, Glo and jgs...

...and I can confirm its a soooperb place to go :)

[Lady Pitstop]

Some nice colourful birds out there especially that last one and good one of the heron too :thumbs:. Good portrait of the iguana. :clap:

Nice to see some tropical animals. :D

[Yv]

Some great feathers and stuff there John, look slike Me-hi-co was well worth the jet lag :clap:

[menacedingaling]

nice shots! Hope it was scorchio!!

[Dark Star]

Me-hi-co was scor-chio (well a bit too much cloud but when the sun shone - ouch!)

Thanks Ladys P and L and menacedingaling (great name btw!)