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.
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| 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
e also had excellent views of the White-bearded Manakin which was also lekking.
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| SPECTACLED THRUSH |
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| 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.
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| GREEN HONEYCREEPER |
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| 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
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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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