Great Blue Heron, fishing
Great Horned Owl juvenile
Ring-billed Gull / Larus delawarensis
At the Oilbird (Steatornis caripensis) cave, Trini…
Oilbird / Steatornis caripensis, Trinidad
Merlin
Bald Eagle / Haliaeetus leucocephalus
Yesterday's Bald Eagle
Pam and friend
Wood Duck male
Swainson's Hawk
A favourite subject with photographers
Evening Grosbeak female
Ruddy Turnstone, Blue Waters Inn, Tobago
After a busy night of hunting
Double-crested Cormorants / Phalacrocorax auritus
Rufous-vented chachalaca, Blue Waters Inn, Tobago
And down(y) he flew
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At the Saskatoon Farm
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American Tree Sparrow / Spizelloides arborea
Couple of Coots / Fulica americana
Shadows
One of a pair
Common Redpolls / Acanthis flammea
Barn Owl
Swainson's Hawk juvenile
Canada Geese on ice at Pine Coulee Reservoir
Popcan-sized Northern Pygmy-owl, from January 2015
Another surprise on another gloomy day
Common Redpoll / Acanthis flammea
It's the little guy/gal again
Evening Grosbeaks, male and female
Purple Honeycreeper male
Northern Shrike
White-tailed Ptarmigan
White-tailed Ptarmigan camouflage
A change from a world of white
Time to rest
Wilson's Snipe
House Sparrow at the Saskatoon Farm
Ruddy Turnstone, Tobago
White-necked Jacobin, Asa Wright, Trinidad
Where countryside and civilization meet
Once was wild
White Pheasant
Wild Turkey
Licorice Allsorts eyes
Wild Turkey at the Cochrane Ecological Institute
I spy with my little eye
"Just" a little House Sparrow
Common Redpoll
A welcome addition to our Christmas Bird Count
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Common Redpoll with an orange spot
Always a treat
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Mountain Chickadee / Poecile gambeli
Pine Grosbeak female
Common Redpoll
Handsome Pine Grosbeak male
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Friendly visitor
Yesterday's Great Horned Owl
Great Horned Owl on a fence post
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Happy Thanksgiving!
Common Raven keeping watch
I'm tiny - and BLUE
Red-breasted Nuthatch
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Red-tailed Hawk?
Eurasian Collared-Dove / Streptopelia decaocto
Three years later ....
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Purple Honeycreeper female, Asa Wright
Bluebird of happiness
Magpies, Wood Ducks and a (Greater?) Yellowlegs
American Goldfinch
Helmeted Guineafowl
Swainson's Hawk
Juvenile American Coot
Palm Tanager, Asa Wright, Trinidad
Wood Duck juvenile
Juvenile Swainson's Hawk
Wood Ducks
Hybrid Mourning Dove-Eurasian Collared Dove
Green-winged Teal and Black-bellied Plover
American Goldfinch eating Sunflower seeds
Swainson's Hawk juvenile
Killdeer / Charadrius vociferus
Yellowlegs
Canada Warbler / Cardellina canadensis
Swainson's Hawk juvenile
Green Honeycreeper female, Asa Wright, Trinidad
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You looking at me, lady?
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Sleepy Short-eared Owl
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Rose-breasted Grosbeak
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Yellow Oriole, Asa Wright, Trinidad
This morning, 13 October 2017, I have added two more photos from our trip to Trinidad & Tobago. I still have to finish off the last day and a half on Trinidad, including the highlight of the holiday - the Scarlet Ibis. Will I get it finished this winter? Who knows, but I really hope so.
"Although it does have black in its plumage, the Yellow Oriole derives its common name from the large extent of yellow in its plumage relative to all other orioles, with its black restricted to the tail, a narrow yellow bib, and the wings. The Yellow Oriole is a common resident in lowlands below 500 m in northern South America and adjoining Caribbean islands from northeastern Colombia to the mouth of the Amazon. It occurs in a variety of open forest habitats such as deciduous woodland, scrub, and in urban areas. This is the only icterid in its range with the combination of an all yellow back and white wing bars." From Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Neotropical Birds.
neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/portal/species/overview?p_p...
This adventure was only the second holiday of any kind, anywhere, that I have had in something like 30 or 35 years! The other holiday was a wonderful, one-week trip 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 (from 12-21 March 2017), 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, much larger island of Trinidad. We decided to take a complete package, so everything was included - accommodation at both places, all our food, and the various walks and day trips that we could choose from. Two of my friends, Anne B. and Brenda, saw to all the planning of flights and accommodations, which was so very much appreciated by the rest of us. I could never have done all this myself! We were so lucky with our flights, as we were just in time to get Black Friday prices, which were 50% off!
What a time we had, seeing so many beautiful and interesting things - and, of course, everything was a lifer for me. Some of these friends had visited Costa Rica before, so were familiar with some of the birds. There was a lot more to see on Trinidad, being a much larger island, so we were glad that we chose Tobago to visit first and then spend a longer time at Asa Wright. It was wonderful to be right by the sea, though, at the Blue Waters Inn on the island of Tobago. Just gorgeous.
The Asa Wright Nature Centre, on Trinidad, 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 high up the mountainous road. The drive up and down this narrow, twisting, 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 minibus. I had read many accounts of this road, lol! There was enough room for two vehicles to pass each other, and the honking of horns was almost continuous - either to warn any vehicle that might be coming fast around the next bend or as a sign that drivers knew each other. The drive along this road, from the coast to Asa Wright, took just over an hour each way.
I still miss the great food that was provided every single day at Asa Wright and even the Rum Punch that appeared each evening. I never drink at all, so I wasn't sure if I would even try the Punch - glad I did, though, as it was delicious and refreshing. Breakfast, lunch and dinner were all served buffet-style, with a great variety of dishes from which to choose. To me, pure luxury. So very, very grateful to have been invited to be part of this amazing adventure.
This is a video that I found on YouTube, taken by Rigdon Currie and Trish Johnson, at many of the same places we visited on Trinidad and Tobago. Not my video, but it made me feel like I was right there still. Posting the link here again, so that I won't lose it.
youtu.be/BBifhf99f_M
I also came across the following 27-minute YouTube video of the flora and fauna of Trinidad, filmed by John Patrick Smith in February 2015.
youtu.be/6HHBm9MIxnk
"Although it does have black in its plumage, the Yellow Oriole derives its common name from the large extent of yellow in its plumage relative to all other orioles, with its black restricted to the tail, a narrow yellow bib, and the wings. The Yellow Oriole is a common resident in lowlands below 500 m in northern South America and adjoining Caribbean islands from northeastern Colombia to the mouth of the Amazon. It occurs in a variety of open forest habitats such as deciduous woodland, scrub, and in urban areas. This is the only icterid in its range with the combination of an all yellow back and white wing bars." From Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Neotropical Birds.
neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/portal/species/overview?p_p...
This adventure was only the second holiday of any kind, anywhere, that I have had in something like 30 or 35 years! The other holiday was a wonderful, one-week trip 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 (from 12-21 March 2017), 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, much larger island of Trinidad. We decided to take a complete package, so everything was included - accommodation at both places, all our food, and the various walks and day trips that we could choose from. Two of my friends, Anne B. and Brenda, saw to all the planning of flights and accommodations, which was so very much appreciated by the rest of us. I could never have done all this myself! We were so lucky with our flights, as we were just in time to get Black Friday prices, which were 50% off!
What a time we had, seeing so many beautiful and interesting things - and, of course, everything was a lifer for me. Some of these friends had visited Costa Rica before, so were familiar with some of the birds. There was a lot more to see on Trinidad, being a much larger island, so we were glad that we chose Tobago to visit first and then spend a longer time at Asa Wright. It was wonderful to be right by the sea, though, at the Blue Waters Inn on the island of Tobago. Just gorgeous.
The Asa Wright Nature Centre, on Trinidad, 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 high up the mountainous road. The drive up and down this narrow, twisting, 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 minibus. I had read many accounts of this road, lol! There was enough room for two vehicles to pass each other, and the honking of horns was almost continuous - either to warn any vehicle that might be coming fast around the next bend or as a sign that drivers knew each other. The drive along this road, from the coast to Asa Wright, took just over an hour each way.
I still miss the great food that was provided every single day at Asa Wright and even the Rum Punch that appeared each evening. I never drink at all, so I wasn't sure if I would even try the Punch - glad I did, though, as it was delicious and refreshing. Breakfast, lunch and dinner were all served buffet-style, with a great variety of dishes from which to choose. To me, pure luxury. So very, very grateful to have been invited to be part of this amazing adventure.
This is a video that I found on YouTube, taken by Rigdon Currie and Trish Johnson, at many of the same places we visited on Trinidad and Tobago. Not my video, but it made me feel like I was right there still. Posting the link here again, so that I won't lose it.
youtu.be/BBifhf99f_M
I also came across the following 27-minute YouTube video of the flora and fauna of Trinidad, filmed by John Patrick Smith in February 2015.
youtu.be/6HHBm9MIxnk
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