Monday, April 23, 2012

Yelapa

I went back to Yelapa.  I hadn't been for a year, but a bunch of other boats were going, sort of like a race, so I joined in.
I really like the birds that live over there, and because of the river, there is fresh water to walk around in and swim in.  So I did a river walk and went up to a waterfall.
On the way back there was a woodpecker in the tree.  I saw one of these last year with Abe and Katrina, in San Blas, but this woodpecker is really neat looking, and not in the bird book I have.
There was also this kind of nut that grows up there, and last year my dad and I were finding a lot of the shells, and wondering what they came from.  This is a picture of the fruiting body.




4 comments:

mlloyd said...

I think that is an imperial woodpecker, similar to a pileated but lives in Mexico and has the spectacular white markings on its back. Thanks for the pictures, I loved Yelapa,

T. Abe Lloyd said...

Last year we saw a Lineated Woodpecker in San Blas. The Imperial Woodpecker looks very similar but is larger (the world's largest) and has white on its face. I believe this is a female Pale-billed Woodpecker.

I am not sure about the tree seedpod. Maybe a Ceiba sp. (Kapok)

mlloyd said...

As usual, brother Abraham is right...

Aimee Fertman said...

Danny and I went there on his birthday a couple years ago. It's such a beautiful place. Thanks for the photos.