Rufous-vented chachalaca / Ortalis ruficauda, Toba…
Shiny Cowbird / Molothrus bonariensis, Tobago
Brown Pelicans / Pelecanus occidentalis, Blue Wate…
Daily gathering of the Brown Pelicans, Tobago
Bananaquit / Coereba flaveola, Tobago
Trinidad Motmot / Momotus bahamensis, Tobago
Tropical Mockingbird / Mimus gilvus, Tobago
Tropical Mockingbird with attitude
Floating on aquamarine waves
Rufous-vented chachalaca / Ortalis ruficauda, Toba…
Tropical Mockingbird / Mimus gilvus, Tobago
Ruddy Turnstone bathtime
Tropical Mockingbird, Blue Waters Inn, Tobago
Black-throated Mango on nest, Tobago, Day 2
Green Heron, Tobago, Day 2
Rufous-tailed Jacamar, Tobago, Day 2
Green Heron, Tobago, Day 2
Tropical Kingbird / Tyrannus melancholicus, Tobago…
Is this a Giant Cowbird?, Tobago, Day 2
Rufous-tailed Jacamar, Tobago, Day 2
Purple Honeycreeper / Cyanerpes caeruleus, Asa Wri…
Masked Cardinal / Paroaria nigrogenis, Trinidad, D…
White-chested Emerald, Asa Wright Nature Centre, T…
Green Honeycreeper male, Asa Wright Nature Centre,…
White-necked Jacobin, Asa Wright Nature Centre, Tr…
Blue-gray Tanager, Asa Wright Nature Centre, Trini…
Green Honeycreeper female, Asa Wright Nature Centr…
Yellow Oriole / Icterus nigrogularis, Asa Wright N…
Feeding frenzy, Asa Wright Nature Centre, Trinidad
Crested Oropendola / Psarocolius decumanus, Asa Wr…
Guianan Trogon, Asa Wright Nature Centre
Collared Trogon / Trogon collaris, Asa Wright, Bel…
Copper-rumped Hummingbird / Amazilia tobac, Trinid…
Bananaquit / Coereba flaveola, Asa Wright, Trinida…
Blue-gray Tanager /Thraupis episcopus, Asa Wright,…
Western Meadowlark / Sturnella neglecta
American Robin / Turdus migratorius, Carburn Park
Palm Tanager / Thraupis palmarum, Asa Wright Natur…
Green Honeycreeper, Asa Wright Nature Centre, Trin…
White-necked Jacobin female, Trinidad
White-necked Jacobin female, Asa Wright Nature Cen…
Purple Honeycreeper male, Asa Wright Nature Centre…
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) male / Setophaga co…
Rough-legged Hawk / Buteo lagopus
Green Honeycreeper male, Asa Wright Nature Centre,…
White-necked Jacobin, Asa Wright Nature Centre, Tr…
Green Hermit Hummingbird female, Asa Wright Nature…
Purple Honeycreeper female, Trinidad
White-necked Jacobin, Asa Wright Nature Centre
Green Honeycreeper male, Asa Wright Nature Centre,…
Wilson's Snipe
Violaceous Euphonia / Euphonia violacea, Asa Wrigh…
Hummingbird wings
White-necked Jacobin immature, Trinidad
Green Honeycreeper female, Asa Wright, Trinidad
Green Honeycreeper female, Asa Wright, Trinidad
Yellow-chinned Spinetail, Nariva Swamp afternoon
Pied Water-Tyrant, Nariva Swamp afternoon, Trinida…
Yellow Oriole / Icterus nigrogularis, Nariva Swamp…
Cattle Egret on Water Buffalo, Nariva Swamp aftern…
Green Honeycreeper male, Asa Wright Nature Centre,…
White-lined Tanager, Asa Wright Nature Centre, Tri…
American Robin's egg on the ground
Ruddy Turnstone / Arenaria interpres, Blue Waters…
Tropical Mockingbird, Blue Waters Inn, Tobago
Northern Hawk Owl with woodland bokeh
Female Kestrel
Turkey Vulture talons
False eyes and real eyes
Boreal Chickadee
01 Barred Owl
02 Bald Eagle in late afternoon sun
Northern Pygmy-owl
Mountain Chickadee
Always glad to see a Snowy
Meadow Vole for a late lunch
Northern Hawk Owl
Great Gray Owl, focused
Eyes fixed on supper
Burrowing Owl
Humboldt Penguin / Spheniscus humboldti
Perch with a good view
Taveta Golden Weaver
Such a beautiful owl
Peacefully waiting
Great Gray Owl from 2013
Quietly watching, always alert
Mountain Chickadee / Poecile gambeli
Winner with its prey
It's those white birds again
Northern Hawk Owl
Snowy Owl along the fenceline
Northern Hawk Owl
A backward glance
Red-winged Blackbird female or juvenile
Atop a utility pole
Meadow Vole for a tasty snack
Northern Hawk Owl
Two of a family of three
Northern Hawk Owl from 2016
Dark-eyed beauty
Yesterday's treat
Female Mountain Bluebird with lunch for her babies
The size of a popcan
Sharp-tailed Grouse
Better than nothing - this is NOT my main photo!
Sleepy Great Horned Owl
Winter on the prairies
Sharp-tailed Grouse - not my main photo!
Eared Grebe
Great Gray Owl in early morning sunlight
Great Horned Owl
Ferocious hunter, but looking cute
Continuing the hunt
Northern Pygmy-owl
Sharp-tailed Grouse
Northern Shrike / Lanius excubitor
Snowy Owl in rehab
Turkey Vulture preening
Way, way up
A change from a Black-capped Chickadee
White beauty
Downy Woodpecker and bokeh
Same tiny Northern Pygmy-owl
'Barn' Owl, alias Great Horned Owl
Location
See also...
Keywords
Authorizations, license
-
Visible by: Everyone -
All rights reserved
-
185 visits
Blue-gray Tanager / Thraupis episcopus, Tobago
Not the best photo of one of these birds - I do have much nicer ones, but they were taken on Trinidad and I will post them another day.
"The Blue-gray Tanager is one of the most widespread, and ubiquitous, birds of the humid lowland neotropics. At almost any location between southeastern Mexico and central South America, it is a familiar presence at forest edge, in second-growth, along roads and rivers, in plantations, and even in urban parks and gardens. Blue-gray Tanagers prefer semi-open habitats; they are not found in interior of closed canopy forest, but they can quickly colonize fresh clearings." From Cornell's Neotropical Birds.
neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/portal/species/overview?p_p...
Bear with me, everyone, as I think I am going to have to post 6 photos from my trip each day, otherwise it will take me many months (years?) to get them on to Flickr. Obviously, no comments expected, unless you happen to like one photo in particular. Actually, I am so disappointed with my photos - never have so many photos come out blurry, many totally blurry and no use at all. No idea why - the light was often really bad and maybe the humidity had some effect. For some species, I am going to post awful shots, just for the record.
It will take me forever to do any kind of write-up about this trip, but eventually, I hope to get some kind of description written. Right now, I'm not quite sure where I was and when, lol! We arrived back in Calgary two evenings ago, on 21 March 2017, and I have to get myself unpacked and organized. Totally dead beat after such a busy time away, dealing with extremely early mornings and hot, humid weather. Those of you who know me well, know that I am a dreadful night-owl, so getting up around 5:15 am was an absolute killer. Also, heat and humidity don't agree with my body, so each trip out was quite exhausting. In the morning of 21 March, we had to get up around 2:00 am, as we had such an early flight (5 and a half hours) from Trinidad to Toronto - followed by a four-hour flight back to Calgary. On our very first day, we had three flights in a row, as we flew from Calgary to Toronto, then Toronto to Port of Spain on Trinidad, from where we had a short flight to the island of Tobago.
This adventure was only the second holiday (or was it actually my third?) of any kind, anywhere, that I have had in something like 30 or 35 years! The other holiday was a one-week holiday with my great friends from England, Linda and Tony, when we went down south to Yellowstone National Park and the Grand Tetons in September 2012. I have had maybe half a dozen weekends away, including to Waterton National Park, which have helped keep me going.
Six birding/photographer friends and I decided that we would take this exciting trip together, spending the first two or three days on the island of Tobago and then the rest of the time at the Asa Wright Nature Centre on the nearby, larger island of Trinidad. What a time we had, seeing so many beautiful things - and, of course, everything was a lifer for me. Some of these friends had visited Costa Rica before, so were familiar with quite a few of the birds. There was a lot more to see on Trinidad, so we were glad that we chose Tobago to visit first and then spend a longer time at Asa Wright.
The Asa Wright Nature Centre is such an amazing place! We stayed in cabins up or down hill from the main building. Really, one doesn't need to travel away from the Centre for birding, as so many different species visit the Hummingbird feeders that are right by the huge, open veranda, and the trees of the rain forest that live in the area, high up a mountainous road. The drive up and down this narrow, pot-holed road was an adventure in itself! Never would I ever do this drive myself - we had a guide who drove us everywhere in a van/small bus. I had read many accounts of this road, lol!
And now I am going to take a break from typing and go and make myself some breakfast - already missing the great food that was provided every single day at Asa Wright and the Rum Punch that appeared each evening. I don't drink at all, so I wasn't sure if I would even try the Punch - glad I did, though, as it was delicious.
"The Blue-gray Tanager is one of the most widespread, and ubiquitous, birds of the humid lowland neotropics. At almost any location between southeastern Mexico and central South America, it is a familiar presence at forest edge, in second-growth, along roads and rivers, in plantations, and even in urban parks and gardens. Blue-gray Tanagers prefer semi-open habitats; they are not found in interior of closed canopy forest, but they can quickly colonize fresh clearings." From Cornell's Neotropical Birds.
neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/portal/species/overview?p_p...
Bear with me, everyone, as I think I am going to have to post 6 photos from my trip each day, otherwise it will take me many months (years?) to get them on to Flickr. Obviously, no comments expected, unless you happen to like one photo in particular. Actually, I am so disappointed with my photos - never have so many photos come out blurry, many totally blurry and no use at all. No idea why - the light was often really bad and maybe the humidity had some effect. For some species, I am going to post awful shots, just for the record.
It will take me forever to do any kind of write-up about this trip, but eventually, I hope to get some kind of description written. Right now, I'm not quite sure where I was and when, lol! We arrived back in Calgary two evenings ago, on 21 March 2017, and I have to get myself unpacked and organized. Totally dead beat after such a busy time away, dealing with extremely early mornings and hot, humid weather. Those of you who know me well, know that I am a dreadful night-owl, so getting up around 5:15 am was an absolute killer. Also, heat and humidity don't agree with my body, so each trip out was quite exhausting. In the morning of 21 March, we had to get up around 2:00 am, as we had such an early flight (5 and a half hours) from Trinidad to Toronto - followed by a four-hour flight back to Calgary. On our very first day, we had three flights in a row, as we flew from Calgary to Toronto, then Toronto to Port of Spain on Trinidad, from where we had a short flight to the island of Tobago.
This adventure was only the second holiday (or was it actually my third?) of any kind, anywhere, that I have had in something like 30 or 35 years! The other holiday was a one-week holiday with my great friends from England, Linda and Tony, when we went down south to Yellowstone National Park and the Grand Tetons in September 2012. I have had maybe half a dozen weekends away, including to Waterton National Park, which have helped keep me going.
Six birding/photographer friends and I decided that we would take this exciting trip together, spending the first two or three days on the island of Tobago and then the rest of the time at the Asa Wright Nature Centre on the nearby, larger island of Trinidad. What a time we had, seeing so many beautiful things - and, of course, everything was a lifer for me. Some of these friends had visited Costa Rica before, so were familiar with quite a few of the birds. There was a lot more to see on Trinidad, so we were glad that we chose Tobago to visit first and then spend a longer time at Asa Wright.
The Asa Wright Nature Centre is such an amazing place! We stayed in cabins up or down hill from the main building. Really, one doesn't need to travel away from the Centre for birding, as so many different species visit the Hummingbird feeders that are right by the huge, open veranda, and the trees of the rain forest that live in the area, high up a mountainous road. The drive up and down this narrow, pot-holed road was an adventure in itself! Never would I ever do this drive myself - we had a guide who drove us everywhere in a van/small bus. I had read many accounts of this road, lol!
And now I am going to take a break from typing and go and make myself some breakfast - already missing the great food that was provided every single day at Asa Wright and the Rum Punch that appeared each evening. I don't drink at all, so I wasn't sure if I would even try the Punch - glad I did, though, as it was delicious.
- Keyboard shortcuts:
Jump to top
RSS feed- Latest comments - Subscribe to the comment feeds of this photo
- ipernity © 2007-2024
- Help & Contact
|
Club news
|
About ipernity
|
History |
ipernity Club & Prices |
Guide of good conduct
Donate | Group guidelines | Privacy policy | Terms of use | Statutes | In memoria -
Facebook
Twitter
Sign-in to write a comment.