Entering St John capital and major port of ANTIGUA,
with similar birds to St Kitts awaiting us, but we had bigger fish to fry.
The view from our berth to the open sea where the
Cruise Ship 'MSC LIRICA' soon appeared.
A new bird for the trip, a CARIB GRACKLE one of hundreds!
BEEs hard at work while this
COMMON GROUND DOVE watched from on high.
Another
OSPREY again first seen by our 'Chief Spotter' Shelagh. When the taxi
stopped it was perched in a tree with a fish which it soon abandoned at
our approach.
Stopping
at a small woodland, we walked to the lake where there were a number of
small LIZARDs, but mostly of note were the number and variety of
along with a RINGED KINGFISHER and a Spotted Sandpiper which escaped the lens.
There have been a good number of BANANAQUIT but this is the best we have done for photograph thus far.
and
then stopping at a small Chalet Park we were refused entry by the
Office Lady who later let us in only to find our 'target bird'
immediately.
GREEN HERON
The SNOWY EGRET is such a smart bird, worthy of a little more than a passing glance.
There, what did I tell you?
So
lucky to find this ANTILLIAN BULLFINCH out in the open, all those we
have seen thus far, and there have been a few, dive for cover the moment
we spot them.
CHIT CHAT as we called them in the RN.
