Mexico Adventure: Part TEN: birds and flowers

Since retiring and especially since getting into photography,

I have become a birdwatcher.

It doesn't stop when you go on vacation.

In fact, I get even MORE excited to see birds elsewhere...

but I am never sure if the birds there are the same breed as what I know. 

But,

I still take photos of them if I find them.

Same with flowers. I NEVER know the names of flowers elsewhere.

Sometimes I ask the locals, sometimes I can't find out.

So,

if you know the names of any of these birds or flowers for certain, leave it in a comment

for us, will you?

This LOOKED like a Baltimore Oriole:

I told him I wondered where he flew south...and that his secret was safe with me.

One of the locals told us this bush and flowers was called a Flamboyant plant.

Here is a closeup of the flowers!:

A pelican!:

More Flamboyant flowers:

These looked like Azaleas?:

I was so thrilled to see Hummingbirds in February!:

With nearly everyone getting an "early" spring this  year...

I hope you are getting your spring birds at your doorstep

and that your flowers are sprouting.

It has been incredible here in the U.P.!

We NEVER have had this warm of a spring for my entire life. In fact, we often say it is common to get a St. Patrick's Day blizzard and one or two snowfalls in April yet...

but we have been blessed with 70's and even a few days in the 80's F. degree temps.!

Unreal!

But, by the time you read this, we are expected to drop more down into the normal temps. for us this time of year...which is 40's and 50's. We are all betting that we will again see white snowflakes before REAL spring arrives...I hope we are wrong!