General Discussion & Chat: My visit to Belize, 0 by philomel

philomel wrote:
A couple of you have asked for a description of my trip to Belize, so here's a taster.
I was there on a bat workshop, which i understand figured in a magazine's top ten of weirdest holidays for the year (not sure which number we reached though).
We saw loads of animals and birds and handled 29 species of bat from the largest in the Americas to the smallest (and found c10 more using bat detectors)
Other mammals were jaguarundi (one of the small big cats), tamandua (arboreal anteater), woolly opossum, deer, howler monkeys, spider monkeys (which bombed us with huge fruits, the little darlings), squirrels, coati mundi, agouti, paca (like an agouti only different), gray fox, and kinkajou. I saw 118 species of bird, and others were seen that i missed. Everything from impressive eagles and huge vultures down to jewel-like humming birds. We saw jacanas walking on lily pads and i saw a Gray Hawk dive on a snake and fly off with it.
Yes we did get rained on (only a couple of times - Belize has a mini dry patch in august) and no we weren't anywhere we could dry out. Our things were wet through even without the rain. But IT WAS WORTH IT!