Ria Lagartos

Hi all,

I'm not much of a wildlife shooter mainly because I don't have the skills. When I have a long lens, I'm usually shooting something like a kid's soccer game. But, we spent the day up at Ria Lagartos. I just couldn't stop shooting the birds.

They started following us when we left port.

Because they expected a little propina.



Then there were the web foots.

Along with a few cormorants.

There was a worried mom (to be) that was hiding in her nest (bare-throated tiger-heron).



Not only because we were below, but because there was a black hawk above. Black hawks are egg eaters.

There werealso crocs below, but they were not into posing.

The egrets hung out with the herons.

And then there were the flamencos. These were the most amazing to watch... such big birds here and just gorgeous fliers.

As we were poling back our guide reached down in the water for a while, and then pulled up a couple of horseshoe crabs.

Did you know that the horseshoe crab has been around so long that it predates most species on this earth.


They are more closely related to spiders than crabs.

I have never seen or played with anything quite like these. We returned them back after tickling them for a while.

I must show some of my fellow boaters.

Our superb boatman who had an amazing ability of finding the wildlife in all the nooks an cranies.

Thanks for looking...
Tim

ps. The a more complete gallery can be found here...
http://community.webshots.com/album/547583895kLeHVs