The Adventures of Kerri & Matt

The lodge has a little ocelot playground set up where the ocelot likes to visit.

With a place for us to hide.

And stare at the tree branches until they look like they have eyes.

Waiting for the ocelot to show up.

The ocelot never showed up.

Maybe next time.

On the way back we heard an armadillo and saw a snake.

So that’s something.

After that we went on a night game drive and saw a couple deer.

Overall, not a very successful night.

This is a cattle tyrant

It has a yellow belly and a grey head.

Just like this king bird

And this great kiskadee

I think the bird naming people are mocking us

This is a mockingbird

He didn’t seem very happy.

Now who’s head is this?

It could be this rufous hornero

Or it could be one of the birds above, I really don’t remember.

The colourful birds are more memorable

Than these boring yellow and brown ones

But they’re too quick to get good pictures of

Ugly birds are better at sitting still.

There are a lot of purple flowers in the Pantanal.

There are also some other colours of flowers.

But mostly purple.

They stand out a lot from the green

Everywhere is purple and green

The purple flowers are tiny

The bees seem to like them

They spend a lot of time going flower to flower

Buzz Buzz

This is a black collared hawk.

His collar is more dark brown than black.

But they didn’t let us pick the name.

I would have called him something different.

Like the lazyboy hawk.

Because he had this funny leaning back posture.

Like a hawk in a lazyboy.

But I wouldn’t want to make him angry.

He was probably just having trouble holding on in the wind.