2017 Photographic Big Year 32-36

This update to my 2017 Photographic Big Year consist of images I consider of documentary quality, meaning while the image is good enough to make a positive identification of the species possible, it would not make it to a photo competition.  This group consists of three birds that are considered rare, (32) Wood Sandpiper, (33) Lesser Black-backed Gull and (34) Grey Heron. The remaining images are of the new world version of Grey Heron - (35) Great Blue Heron and (36) Northern Waterthrush.

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32- Wood Sandpiper - Tringa glareola @ St. Lucy in January

33- Lesser Black-backed Gull - Larus fuscus @ Carlisle Bay early February

34- Grey Heron - Ardea cinerea @ St. Philip 

35- Great Blue Heron - Ardea herodias @ Chancery Lane

36- Northern Waterthrush - Parkesia noveboracensis @

Graeme Hall Swamp

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2017 Photographic Big Year 28-31

Saturday 25^th was a very hectic day but I was able to squeeze in a few hours of birding in the eastern part of the island. Even though it was hectic I was still able to capture 4 species for my Photographic Big Year gallery moving my overall tally to 31 species/images. I am not too impress with the images and will be planning to try again, at least for the tropicbird and Masked Duck.  Here are the birds numbering 28-31: (28) Red-billed Tropicbird; (29) Least Sandpiper; (30) Caribbean Martin; (31) Masked Duck.

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28- Red-billed Tropicbird -  Phaethon aethereus

29- Least Sandpiper - Calidris minutilla

 29- Caribbean Martin - Progne dominicensis

30- Masked Duck - Nomonyx dominicus