Birds are continuing to trickle in, as the southern migration
progresses. I have seen fair sized
flocks of Lesser Yellowlegs, Least Sandpipers and a few Short-billed Dowitchers
but was not expecting to see my 78th bird, White-rumped Sandpiper, this early.
I saw two birds wading on the Sargassum Seaweed infested beaches at
River Bay, St. Lucy. Two other birds
were also reported on the eastern coast of the island.
The other birds making their entrance to the 2017
Photographic Big Year gallery were, the Yellow-crowned
Parrot79 (one of the two parrots found on the island) and the Antillean-crested Hummingbird80 (the
smaller of the two hummingbirds).
That leaves me with 20 more species to reach my goal of
photographing one hundred different species of birds in Barbados this year. Will I get them? What other birds will I see? Lifers, rare
birds? Stay tuned to this blog to find
out.
See images below. See 2017 Photographic Big Year images here.
78 - White-rumped Sandpiper - Calidris fuscicollis (R) |
79 - Yellow-crowned Parrot - Amazona ochrocephala |
80 - Antillean Crested Hummingbird - Orthorhyncus cristatus |
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