|  St. Vincent May 8 - 8, 2005
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An early morning flight (annoyingly via Barbados), and a late afternoon return (the same route) from and to our holiday island of
St. Lucia, gave myself and Tom time to get all the important birds from the island. Our driver and guide for the (at one hundred US dollars)
was very competent and probably less than the price of hiring a car for the day.
Most of the birds were seen on the Vermont Forest Trail, with the Flycatcher seen, along with Parrots from the captive breeding program, in
the Botanical Gardens.
The day was very hot, but there was torrential rain and high humidity in the forest. At sea level it was scorching.
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Itinerary
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Flight from St. Lucia; Vermont Nature Trail; Botanical Gardens, Kingstown; return to St. Lucia |
Birds (34 species, 8 ticks)
Magnificent Frigatebird - A few seen whilst driving
Little Blue Heron - One seen whilst waiting for return flight
Cattle Egret - Fairly common
Yellow-crowned Night-heron - One over Kingstown
Common Black-Hawk - Fourteen
Broad-winged Hawk - Nine, including my first of the trip
Spotted Sandpiper - A single at the start of the Vermont trail
Laughing Gull - Several seen whilst driving
Rock Pigeon - A few in Kingstown
Scaly-naped Pigeon - Common at Vermont
Eared Dove - Several seen; seems to replace Zenaida Dove?
Common Ground-Dove - Two
St. Vincent Parrot - Twenty-seven, including two perched
Smooth-billed Ani - One near Kingstown
Lesser Antillean Swift - Twelve in the forest
Purple-throated Carib - Ten
Green-throated Carib - Four
Antillean Crested Hummingbird - Fourteen
Grey Kingbird - Fairly common
Caribbean Elaenia - One in the Botanical Gardens
Grenada Flycatcher - One eventually seen in the Botanical Gardens
House Wren - One, Vermont
Cocoa Thrush - Four, Vermont
Bare-eyed Thrush - One, Botanical Gardens
Tropical Mockingbird - One, Botanical Gardens
Scaly-breasted/Pearly-eyed Thrasher - One; for some reason I was unable to pin this down in St. Lucia as well!
Black-whiskered Vireo - One probable
Whistling Warbler - Three
Bananaquit - Commom, the black form
Lesser Antillean Tanager - Five
Black-faced Grassquit - Common at Vermont
Lesser Antillean Bullfinch - Seven
Carib Grackle - One
Shiny Cowbird - Two
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