Saturday's Critters # 470

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Hello and happy Saturday!

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We are thankful for our travels. There was no Black Friday shopping for me, we were packing and heading to the airport early Saturday morning. Ya mon, Jamaica !  Hubby and I went on a short trip to Jamaica on Nov 26th through Nov 30th.  Hubby really loves snorkeling and of course I was enjoying the Jamaica birds. We stayed in Rose Hall near Montego Bay. We took a day trips sightseeing, snorkeling and birding. One tour was to Negril, stopping at the Seven Mile Beach and Rick's Cafe where we could watch the cliff diving. We also took a tour to the Rockland Bird Sanctuary ( my favorite tour) and hubby took a snorkel trip to the Montego Bay Marine Park. 

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Birds and photos are from the Rockland Bird Sanctuary!

1. Below on the top row: on my finger a Yellow-faced Grassquit, the Red-billed-Streamertail on a perch and on hubby's finger, White-chinned Thrush, Jamaican Oriole. The middle row:  the Jamaican Woodpecker, Mango Hummingbird, Black-faced Grassquits in the bath, Bananaquit, Cattle Egrets. Bottom row: the photos from our resort are the Brown Pelican, Great Egret, White-winged Dove, in flight a Tern with a Gull, Magnificent Frigatebird. 

2. Hubby is feeding the Red-billed Streamertail also known as the Doctor Bird and it is Jamaica's National bird. 

3. The Red-billed Streamertail, these birds seem very calm around people. They flew right up to my camera, zoomed around our heads chasing each other. Below the photo shows off it's pretty scissor tail feathers. 

4. The Jamaican Oriole has a heavy bill with black bib and bold wingbars and additional white on the wings. It is compared to the and resembles the young male Hooded Oriole and the Orchard Orioles. 

5. The Jamaican Woodpecker has a white face and scarlet crown with olive brown underparts. The only other woodpecker seen in Jamaica is the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. 

6. The Jamaican Mango Hummingbird, is a large all dark hummingbird. it has an iridescent dark rosy purple on the head and tail. 

7. Orangequit, the male is a pretty blue and has a pretty color orange throat patch.

8. The White-chinned Thrush, it is a slaty-gray in color with an orange bill and orange legs. It has a small white chin patch. 

9. Perched in a tree were two Bananaquits.

10. The Yellow-faced Grassquits perched on my finger drinking some of the sugar water, hubby and I both had these birds sitting on our legs eating bird seed off our pants. 

I had such a good time at this bird sanctuary, I fed the hummingbirds and the Yellow-faced Grassquits.

11. I had help with the id of these two birds, it was hard for me since they were so wet. They are Black-faced Grassquits. They were not a lifer for me, I have seen the Black-faced Grassquits in Curacao. 

Our Jamaica trip went by so fast, but we enjoyed touring the island, the nice people we met, the snorkeling and the birding.

Life is short, take the trip!

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I am also linking up to Anni's blog party found here I'd Rather B Birding   Anni always has some beautiful birds to be seen on her blog, check it out! Also, I am also linking up to Heidrun's Mosaic Monday  I hope you can stop by and visit Heidrun and check out the Mosaic Monday post.