13/02/2025
From our birding tour today in Altavista !!
As shared by Liz on Facebook, thank you for your good recommendation!!
I’m so glad you had a good time and liked my tour, thanks everyone for your support 🙏🏼
What a very great day! Out of bed at the crack of dawn to join a bird watching tour with Sayulita Bird Watching Tours, West Mexico. Vidal is an absolutely masterful guide to the birds of this area. We heard and saw so many varieties, but the absolute highlight was a pygmy owl (I forget the exact kind) that sat quietly on a branch and intermittently did its little owl call while we gawked through our binoculars and the hummingbirds swooped around it. Wish I could show you a photo!
Then we carried on down the trail to the most amazing Altavista petroglyph site. I visited it once before maybe 15 years ago, but it was so worth a repeat trip. Ancient petroglyphs all along a boulder strewn creek bed through the Mexican jungle. Lots of varied theories about who made them and why, it seems.
If you are ever in the area I would highly recommend birdwatching with L Vidal Prado and squeezing in a trip to the petroglyphs if you are able!