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Red-throated Bee-eater

Red-throated Bee-eater
join us for a fantastic tour of The Gambia this November

Monday, February 3, 2014

GUYANA TO TRINIDAD - DAY 16 - JANUARY 30TH


TRANSFER TO GEORGETOWN THEN TO TRINIDAD.

After our last early breakfast , the group parted ways. Rick and Deitmar were staying at Arrowpoint for the rest of the day, whist the rest of us set off by boat to Georgetown International Airport. It was dull and overcast and we had light rain through the trip, hence no birds were reported except the large Ringed Kingfisher.
THE VERANDA AT ASA WRIGHT
Our flight to Trinidad was on time and only took 60 minutes to get to the airport at Port-of-Spain. There the group split again, John and Gill went on to Tobago for a few days whilst Penny, Mike and myself had 8 hours to kill.  We had planned to visit the Asa Wright Lodge and bird watching centre.
We took a cab and arrived within an hour after a long drive up a steep hill. We had a nice lunch before taking a guided walk in the expansive grounds.
The superb terraced 'birders-veranda' overlooks a fantastic  flowering garden and had many bird feeders including quite a few for hummer-feeders.
 
The walk produced a nice list of species some of which were new for the trip and included the Bearded Bellbird of which we saw several at a lek making strange calls. W
SPECTACLED THRUSH
e also had excellent views of the White-bearded Manakin which was also lekking.
WHITE-BEARDED MANAKIN
 
After the walk we spent a couple of hours on the terrace watching the very active garden and it's feeders; the hummers were fantastic, but so were the tanagers and the thrushes. We saw 3 new thrushes: Spectacled, Cocoa and White-necked Thrushes.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
GREEN HONEYCREEPER
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
BEARDED BELLBIRD
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Here is a list of the birds recorded at ASA Wright - listed roughly on the order that we saw them;
Green Honeycreeper   Green Hermit
Purple Honeycreeper   Tropical Parula
White-Necked Jacobin   Great Antshrike
Tufted Coquette   Barred Antshrike
Banaquit   White-Necked Thrush
Reddish Hermit   American Redstart
Rufous-Breasted Hermit   Golden-Fronted Greenlet
White-Lined Tanager   Boat-Billed Flycatcher
Violaceous Euphonia   Bearded Belbird
Copper-Rumped Hummingbird   Cocoa Thrush
Blue-Chinned Sapphire   Spectacled Thrush
Little Hermit   Turkey Vulture
Turquoise Tanager   Black-Faced Mango
White-Chested Emerald   Ruddy Ground-Dove
Blue-Grey Tanager   Blue Dacnis
Bay-Headed Tanager   Orange-Winged Parrot
Palm Tanager   Long-Billed Starthroat
Golden-Headed Manakin   Tropical Mockingbird
White-Bearded Manakin   Yellow-Rumped Cacique
Crested Oropendola  
Ochre-Bellied Flycatcher
Well our time was soon up and we departed for the airport and flight back to the UK. The trip really was over, all that was left was a head full of lovely memories, hundreds of photographs and a huge list of species.
 
At Gatwick, early on the 31st we all parted company and went our separate ways.
 
 

 

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