Steve Howell on his just-completed tour, Mexico: San Blas

Steve Howell reports from the conclusion of another wonderful week in San Blas where the birds kept them busy, but in a relaxed way based at a very comfortable hotel with excellent food and hospitality, plus warm and sunny weather all week. Ahh, Mexico…

The first morning, this pair of Lineated Woodpeckers posed on a pole right outside our hotel!

Followed within a block by this stunning male Streak-backed Oriole.

The next morning this tiny female Golden-crowned Emerald sat on her nest right beside a dirt road.

Always popular, Northern Potoos showed exceptionally well on our nocturnal boat ride.

Collared Forest-Falcon usually shows itself somewhere during the week, this time on the last morning—but what a view!

Among many other highlights, these diminutive Mexican Parrotlets posed for photos, but all too soon the week was gone.