Mike in the Wild

It wasn't long ago that I wrote about olive-throated parakeets on my visit to Belize.  There wasn't actually much to report except that while on a visit to a Mayan pyramid, I watched several fly overhead, failing miserably to capture any photographs of them.  Well, I'm happy to write that on my return to the Yucatán Peninsula two months later, I had much better luck.   The two trips to the region were markedly different.  The first, in February, was merely a short stop on a cruise where I booked an excursion that comprised a bus trip to the Altun Ha archaeological complex and a return by boat down the Belize River.  It was a fantastic journey filled with lots of spectacular wildlife sightings, but no parrot pictures during my short shoreside stay.  The second visit in April  was an actual six-day land vacation where I flew in and out of Cancun and rented a car to explore a wide swath of Mexico's Yucatán. This latest trip began with two nights at t...