Scenes of El Salvador: Part3

The week we were in El Salvador was focused on building the house and we were surrounded by 4 wall most of the time. But we did manage to get a fair amount of work done on the house and the Mason and his crew had a good start to the house. For the last 3 days that we were in El Salvador we Stayed at a resort across the street from the ocean on a dead end road. It was call Rancho Estero y Mar and was very nice but a bit eclectic. But this is where I finally able to get out and get a good look at some of the wildlife... mainly birds.

Additional photos can be found here

The sun rose every morning there at 6 and so did I, The beach was empty at that time except for the local fisherman. The resort backed on to a national forest reserve so I went to check this out the first morning. A few of the species seen here included:

Ruddy Ground Dove

Crested Caracara

Collared Forest Falcon

Black Vulture

The next 2 days I woke up in the morning and went up the beach a ways to where there was a widening of the river behind the resort and which was pretty close to the ocean this is where many swallows hung out as well as many other birds:

Scissor Tailed Flycatcher

Great Kiskadee

Yellow Crowned Night Heron

Yellow Crowned Night Heron

Whimbrel

Western Willet

Mangrove Swallow

 And somewhat ironically on the last morning just before leaving for the airport I took one more walk down the beach and got a shot of  a:

Snowy Egret