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Spotted Sandpiper -Actitis macularius
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Another Cornell Global Big Day is in the bag and even though
I did not reach my goal of 54 species, it was still a very good family day out
birding. My family and I started the
morning in the Parish of St. James at 5:30 am and ended at Walkers in the parish
of St. Andrew around 5:30 pm with a break between 11 am and 3 pm to attend a colleague’s
funeral. Before our break, we recorded
42 species with an out of season White-rumped
Sandpiper being the bird of the morning. We missed a few birds like the Yellow-crowned Parrot, Black-bellied Plover
and the Eurasian Spoonbill which
has been missing for days. Being pressed for time we had to skip a
few sites.
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| looking over the South Lake at Walkers |
After the break, we had time for only one more stop and we
made it at the Walkers Reserve and Long Pond. It was there that we got our last three birds
for the day, Pied-billed Grebe, American Coot, and Little Egret. We ended the
day looking over the South Lake of Walkers listening to cackling calls of the Common Gallinule. At the end of the day, we tallied 45 species.
It was not the best time for birding on the island but we
made the best of it and I look forward to the second Big Year for the year in
October when more birds will be around.
The Statistic
Number of Species recorded - 45Number of Individuals birds seen - 770
Full checklist here
Full checklist here
Some of the birds we saw
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| Caribbean Elaenia (Elaenia martinica) |
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| Black-whiskered Vireo (Vireo altiloquus) |
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| Eared Dove (Zenaida auriculate) I recorded a pair at a new location |
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| Common Gallinule (Gallinula galeata) sitting on a nest at Graeme Hall Swamp |
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| Willet (Tringa semipalmata) at Chancery Lane |
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