Birding Puerto Vallarta
A great and safe place to bird in Mexico is around Puerto Vallarta and San Blas, West Mexico. Just don't do it in the summer like I did. Not the greatest decision on my part. It's one hot, humid and bug filled miserable experience. I always felt that while I was hitting bugs, I would forget about the American Crocodiles that just quietly sat on the edges of the mangroves waiting for an idiot birder like myself to step on them. On this day, out to the border between the states of Nayarit and Jalisco, we went to look for a few lifers. Or just get better looks at some birds. It was a beautiful overcast morning with some warm humid breezes along the shore. A Tricolored Heron hung out in the river that separated the 2 states. The Nayarit side is overdeveloped while the Jalisco side was wild, buggy and stinky. The stench of garbage was overwhelming at times. And the mangrove was beautiful and full of birds and crocs. We had nice views of a Peregrine Falcon taking down a juvenile
