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Welcome colour
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Rufous-vented chachalaca, Blue Waters Inn, Tobago
"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet"
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Lest we forget
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Swainson's Hawk juvenile
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Purple Honeycreeper male
Old-fashioned garden decoration
A change from a world of white
Wilson's Snipe
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Aging Echinacea
Ruddy Turnstone, Tobago
White-necked Jacobin, Asa Wright, Trinidad
Where countryside and civilization meet
Once was wild
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Common Redpoll
In memory of my daughter
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Pachystachys coccinea?
Purple Honeycreeper male, Asa Wright, Trinidad
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Bananaquit / Coereba flaveola, Trinidad
White-necked Jacobin, Asa Wright, Trinidad
White-necked Jacobin female, Trinidad
A most welcome find
Bananaquit, Trinidad
The end of an Artichoke
Common Redpoll in falling snow
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Asystasia gangetica, Trinidad
White-necked Jacobin, Trinidad
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Masked Cardinal, Trinidad
Dragonfly sp., Trinidad
Purple Honeycreeper, Asa Wright, Trinidad
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Hummingbird, Trinidad
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White-lined Tanager female, Trinidad
Purple Honeycreeper male, Trinidad
Why names just don't suit the bird
Evening Grosbeak female
Pam and friend
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Bald Eagle / Haliaeetus leucocephalus
Yellow Oriole, Asa Wright, Trinidad
Cosmos beauty
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Ruddy Turnstone, Blue Waters Inn, Tobago
Flickr seems to be working again today, 26 October 2017, though who knows for how long. I'm not sure how long it was down for. Views and Stats are totally wrong for today.
Ruddy Turnstones are seen in Alberta, too, as they are a summer resident here. If I have ever seen one here, it would have been very distant. However, we got close views on the island of Tobago. This photo was taken on 13 March 2017, our first day on the island of Tobago. We had such a fun time with these attractive birds. They were often seen down on the beach, but also, each morning when I opened the outside door to my hotel room and stepped outside, a group of them would come running up to me, no doubt hoping to be fed. They were out of luck, needless to say, though I did see another hotel guest giving them food.
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
Ruddy Turnstones are seen in Alberta, too, as they are a summer resident here. If I have ever seen one here, it would have been very distant. However, we got close views on the island of Tobago. This photo was taken on 13 March 2017, our first day on the island of Tobago. We had such a fun time with these attractive birds. They were often seen down on the beach, but also, each morning when I opened the outside door to my hotel room and stepped outside, a group of them would come running up to me, no doubt hoping to be fed. They were out of luck, needless to say, though I did see another hotel guest giving them food.
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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