The birds. . .

We have been getting excellent bird sightings here at the hotel, particulary during breakfast. Whenever the first guests show up, we go and put out plantains or bananas on some feeders for the birds. We have had mott-motts, creepers, wood-peckers, fly-catchers, robins and others along with the usual gaggle of 20 to 30 hummingbirds.


Today, we had a great surprise. It was a aracari, which looks like a toucan, though its beak is more of a solid color of silver/blue than a toucan, which is a bright yellow. For the first time since we've been here, the aracaris came down and at first I thought it was a toucan, as it has the same shape and beak as a toucan.

The largest one swooped down and started scarfing up the plantain, while two smaller ones watched from the tree above. It was really cool to see and exciting, as I thought we were seeing a toucan. Just as close, though, so still pretty neat.