binus1963
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our next trip out was more local we went to falmouth where if you turn up rodney street you have a little patch of mangrove, a few egrets, stilts and ruff, if you return to the main rd and turn right there is a small lake were brown pelicans were diving but due to bush's along the edge had one in the way every time they dived. we did a little round some back roads some of which were too bad and had to turn round and went back to hotel. next trip was to negril area we went round the coast stopping occasionally and upon arrival burger king, the river bridge on the way in gave us a lot of snowy and cattle egrets and a walk round a nearby park gave more of the usual and antillian palm swift, we kept stopping off as we made our way to brighton glossy ibis in a field then a red tailed hawk over parakeets and a few warblers when we got to our digs no one was there so we walked to the sea and had a brown noddy back and forth more of the usual round digs. we set off next morning to rocklands bird santuary we had pied billed grebe and coot before arriving.you can't enter before nine but a few mango's and other helped the wait, we had red billed streamer tails sitting on our fingers to feed, white winged pigeon, jamaican oriole, orange quit and jamaican owl after which we headed home. car had to go back to ocho rios so we had an hour in turtle river park found another owl lot of palm swifts and warblers and a northern water thrush, a lot of dragonfly's and a turtle before heading back. when not away i'd usually walk the local area lots of butterflies on waste ground mongoose and kestrels. all in all a very enjoyable trip didn't get all the endemics but you get what you get. oh nearly forgot one evening just getting dark a flock of nightjars wheeling about over us got picks but could be one of two so don't know which one. cheers.
