Trip Report - Oct 3-5, 2012 - Finally, a Clapper Rail!

Visiting birders Drew and son Andrew spent three days with Hugo and me.  Birding can often be a challenge for many of us but what if we were wheelchair bound and able to use only one hand..... That's Drew.  What a man, and what a son.  Here are the birds we saw/heard in various locations around Lake Patzcuaro and Tacambaro.

Russet-crowned Motmot at Arroyo Frio

Checking out the Clapper Rail

View from the bridge to Jaracuaro

Quesadillas in Erongaricuaro

Oct 3, 2012 - Bridge to Jaracuaro

Cassin's kingbird

Red-tailed hawk

Marsh wren

Little blue heron

Cattle egret

Barn owl

Great egret

Snowy egret
Tri-colored egret
Belted kingfisher
Black-necked stilt

White-faced ibis

Vermilion flycatcher

White-collared seedeater

Black-polled yellowthroat

Barn swallow

Cliff swallow

American coot

Cooper's hawk

Red-winged blackbird

Black phoebe

Turkey vulture

Oct 3, 2012 - Georgia's house in Arocutin

Berylline hummingbird

Magnificent hummingbird

Broad-billed hummingbird

Inca dove
Black vulture

Oct 3, 2012 - Erongaricuaro

House sparrow

Oct 3, 2012 - La Estacion outside of Erongaricuaro

Canyon towhee

Yellow-rumped warbler

Brown-backed solitaire (heard)

Common raven

Summer tanager

Berylline hummingbird
Buff-breasted flycatcher
Great-horned owl (heard)
Ladder-backed woodpecker
Curve-billed thrasher
Wilson's warbler
Bushtit
Slate-throated redstart
Greater pewee
Hermit warbler

Townsend's warbler

Black-throated gray warbler
Mexican chickadee
Gray silky-flycatcher

Oct 3, 2012 - Columpio outside of Zarzamora

Hermit warbler

Grace's warbler

Hepatic tanager

Common raven

Painted redstart
Red-faced warbler

Hybrid towhee (Collared x Spotted)

Oct 4, 2012 - Rio Corucha south of Tacambaro

Great-tailed grackle

Greater pewee

Stripe-headed sparrow
Banded quail - a large covey with numerous juveniles playing in the road
Groove-billed ani
Inca dove
Lesser roadrunner

Black vulture

Turkey vulture
Happy wren (heard)

Blue-black grassquit

Great kiskadee

Violet-crowned hummingbird

American kestrel

Northern rough-winged swallow

Blue-gray gnatcatcher

Golden-crowned emerald

Oct 4, 2012 - Arroyo Frio Balneario

Rufous-capped warbler
Squirrel cuckoo

Ferruginous pygmy-owl (a pair)

Black-and-white warbler
Summer tanager
Streak-backed oriole

Wilson's warbler

Thick-billed kingbird

Dusky hummingbird

Hooded oriole
Canyon wren (heard)
Spotted wren
Happy wren (heard)
Blue-gray gnatcatcher
Great kiskadee

White-throated robin

Russet-crowned motmot
Unidentified buteo

Sharp-eyed Hugo always spots something special

Oct 5, 2012 - Bridge to Jaracuaro

Clapper rail - my first sighting at Lake Patzcuaro, a lifer for Hugo

Wikimedia Photo

Northern waterthrush

Marsh wren

American coot

Tri-colored heron

Great blue heron

Snowy egret

Great egret

White-faced ibis

Barn owl (a pair)

White-collared seedeater

Killdeer

Bronzed cowbird

Vermilion flycatcher

Belted kingfisher

Blue mockingbird

Blue-winged teal

Common yellowthroat

Cooper's hawk

Turkey vulture

Song sparrow

Cliff swallow

Barn swallow

Common raven

Oct 5, 2012 - Columpio outside Zarzamora

Hermit warbler

Slate-throated redstart

Common raven

Mexican chickadee

Brown creeper

Broad-tailed hummingbird

Ruby-crowned kinglet

Hepatic tanager

Pine flycatcher

Cassin's vireo

Red-faced warbler

Yellow-eyed junco