A mix of colours, Trinidad
Early morning Orange-winged Parrots, Trinidad
Bananaquit / Coereba flaveola, Trinidad
Masked Cardinal, Caroni Swamp
Green Honeycreeper male, Asa Wright, Trinidad
White-necked Jacobin, Trinidad
Common Redpoll female
Burrowing Owl in the wild
Yellow Oriole, Trinidad
Great Gray Owl #1
Great Gray Owl #2
Yellow Oriole, Trinidad
Purple Honeycreeper female, Trinidad
Great Gray Owl, watching and listening
Great Gray Owl hunting
Bald Eagle getting a hosepipe shower
Is this a White-necked Jacobin female, Trinidad?
Bananaquit, Asa Wright, Trinidad
Boreal Chickadee
Great Gray Owl, highly zoomed
White-lined Tanager female, Trinidad
A better sense of size
Blue-gray Tanager, Trinidad
American Pygmy Kingfisher / Chloroceryle aenea, Ca…
Palm Tanager, Trinidad
Great Gray Owl on the hunt
Far, far away
Great Gray Owl
On the way to Canmore - seven Swans a-swimming :)
Burrowing owl in the wild
European Starling / Sturnus vulgaris
Common Redpoll
Great Gray Owl
Sleepy Great Horned Owl
Violaceous Euphonia / Euphonia violacea
Black-capped Chickadee
Evening Grosbeak male
Ruddy Turnstone, Tobago
White-lined Tanager, Asa Wright, Trinidad
Wood Ducks
Blue-gray Tanager, Trinidad
White-necked Jacobin male, Trinidad
A touch of blue
Hooded Merganser male
Brewer's Blackbird / Euphagus cyanocephalus
Gathering lunch for his babies
One of yesterday's Great Horned Owls
Black-throated Mango, Asa Wright, Trinidad
On a rainy day in Trinidad
A bright and cheery American Robin
American Kestrel
American Kestrel, Nikon B700
American Kestrel, Panasonic FZ200
Almost missed, but gratefully seen
Blue-gray Tanager, Trinidad
They're back : )
White-lined Tanager male, Trinidad
Yellow Oriole, Trinidad
Ruddy Turnstone, Tobago
Green Honeycreeper female, Trinidad
Bananaquit, Trinidad
Gathering food for his babies
Tree Swallow male
Great Kiskadee / Pitangus sulphuratus, Trinidad
Great Blue Heron and Egret, Trinidad
Yellow Oriole / Icterus nigrogularis, Trinidad
Watching Scarlet Ibis at Caroni Swamp, Trinidad
Masked Cardinal / Paroaria nigrogenis, Trinidad
Great Kiskadee, Asa Wright, Trinidad
Shaking off the raindrops
Pine Grosbeak male / Pinicola enucleator
Green Honeycreeper male, Trinidad
Bald Eagle after a cooling hosepipe shower
Hairy Woodpecker / Picoides villosus
White-lined Tanager female, Trinidad
Hairy Woodpecker
Boreal Chickadee, caught just in time
White-necked Jacobin immature, Trinidad
A cute, young face
White-lined Tanager male / Tachyphonus rufus, Trin…
American Pygmy Kingfisher / Chloroceryle aenea, Ca…
Two Tropical Screech Owls, Caroni Swamp, Trinidad
Black-throated Mango / Anthracothorax nigricollis,…
Masked Cardinal at the edge of Caroni Swamp
Curious glance from a Great Horned Owl
Hummingbird, Trinidad
Saffron Finch / Sicalis flaveola, Trinidad
Masked Cardinal, Trinidad
White-chested Emerald / Amazilia brevirostris, Tri…
Yellow Oriole, Trinidad
Juvenile Northern Goshawk, feeding
White-necked Jacobin, Trinidad
Oilbird, Asa Wright, Trinidad
Pine Grosbeak male feeding on berries
Common Redpoll in falling snow
You never know where you'll see a Snowy Owl
Bananaquit, Trinidad
Two male Snowy Owls in the same field
Snowy Owl number 5
A most welcome find
White-necked Jacobin female, Trinidad
White-necked Jacobin, Asa Wright, Trinidad
Bananaquit / Coereba flaveola, Trinidad
Townsend's Solitaire / Myadestes townsendi
Hooded Merganser male
Purple Honeycreeper male, Asa Wright, Trinidad
Oilbird, Asa Wright Nature Centre, Trinidad
Visit to the Oilbird cave, Trinidad
Immature White-necked Jacobin
Northern Pygmy-owl
Common Redpoll
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Common Redpoll
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White-necked Jacobin, Asa Wright, Trinidad
This was just one of several species of Hummingbird that my six friends and I were lucky enough to see on our trip to Trinidad & Tobago. Though this species is found on both islands, this one was photographed on 18 March 2017, at the Asa Wright Nature Centre, high up in the mountains of Trinidad. I seem to have ended up with a lot more photos of this species than any other, so I hope you aren't getting bored of seeing them : )
"The white-necked jacobin (Florisuga mellivora) is a large and attractive hummingbird that ranges from Mexico, south to Peru, Bolivia and south Brazil. It is also found on Tobago (sub-species F. m. flabellifera) and in Trinidad (sub-species F. m. mellivora)
Other common names are great jacobin and collared hummingbird.
The white-necked jacobin is a widespread inhabitant of forest, usually being seen at a high perch or just above the canopy. It is less common at lower levels, except near hummingbird feeders.
The approximately 12 cm long male white-necked jacobin is unmistakable with its white belly and tail, a white band on the nape and a dark blue hood. Immature males have less white in the tail and a conspicuous rufous patch in the malar region. Females are highly variable, and may resemble adult or immature males, have green upperparts, white belly, white-scaled green or blue throat, and white-scaled dark blue crissum (the area around the cloaca), or be intermediate between the aforementioned plumages, though retain the white-scaled dark blue crissum. Females are potentially confusing, but the pattern on the crissum is distinctive and not shared by superficially similar species.
These birds usually visit flowers of tall trees and epiphytes for nectar, and also hawk for insects." From Wikipedia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-necked_jacobin
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 dear 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, 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 sometimes think about 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 came across 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
"The white-necked jacobin (Florisuga mellivora) is a large and attractive hummingbird that ranges from Mexico, south to Peru, Bolivia and south Brazil. It is also found on Tobago (sub-species F. m. flabellifera) and in Trinidad (sub-species F. m. mellivora)
Other common names are great jacobin and collared hummingbird.
The white-necked jacobin is a widespread inhabitant of forest, usually being seen at a high perch or just above the canopy. It is less common at lower levels, except near hummingbird feeders.
The approximately 12 cm long male white-necked jacobin is unmistakable with its white belly and tail, a white band on the nape and a dark blue hood. Immature males have less white in the tail and a conspicuous rufous patch in the malar region. Females are highly variable, and may resemble adult or immature males, have green upperparts, white belly, white-scaled green or blue throat, and white-scaled dark blue crissum (the area around the cloaca), or be intermediate between the aforementioned plumages, though retain the white-scaled dark blue crissum. Females are potentially confusing, but the pattern on the crissum is distinctive and not shared by superficially similar species.
These birds usually visit flowers of tall trees and epiphytes for nectar, and also hawk for insects." From Wikipedia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-necked_jacobin
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 dear 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, 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 sometimes think about 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 came across 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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