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Rick's Cafe, Negril Jamaica Nov 2022
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Sunset at Bloody Bay, Jamaica
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Happy New Year everyone! Thanks to all my visitors for your past and present comments. I appreciate everyone who has linked up their critter post this past year, I do love seeing all your critters. May this New Year be filled with much Joy and wonderful moments and critters for you!
Late November, for 5 days we were in Jamaica. It was great having a direct flight to Montego Bay from our airport BWI. Just a little over 3 hours we were in Jamaica. Hubby and I would start our day watching the sunrise from the balcony of our room. I enjoyed watching the Brown Pelicans, Great Egrets, Great Blue Heron, Pigeons and the White-winged Doves flying around the resort.
1. Nov 26th, Jamaica pigeon, White-winged Dove, Brown Pelican and a Great Blue Heron fly by.
Water activities galore, diving and snorkeling, kayaking and more right next door to our resort.
2. Nov 27th, distant Great Egret, a couple of Brown Pelicans
Nov 27th, a couple of Brown Pelicans are perched on the boat below. It was a pretty sky watch day.
There were some trees along the beach, nice spots to sit in the shade. I would watch hubby snorkeling and at the same time see and hear the Bananaquits moving around in the trees.
3. Nov 28th, the Brown Pelicans were seen every morning, some times perched on one of the boats. The Great Egrets were seen fishing every morning.
4. Nov 28th , the sunrise from our balcony.
5. Nov 29th, while watching the sunrise I was also watching the Brown Pelicans and the Great Egrets in front of our resort.
6. I zoomed in on the Great Egret walking on the distant pier.
7. Nov 30th, our last morning at breakfast these two cats liked to hang out on the restaurant's patio, maybe getting food from the hotel guest.
8. Nov 30th, one last look at the ocean and resort while waiting for our airport transfer.
9. Nov 30th, a sky shot from the plane on the way home.
Hubby and I love to travel, this was our first time visiting Jamaica, it was a fun and pretty island to visit. We are already planning our next trip and I am looking forward to our next adventure.
"I haven't been everywhere but it is on my list."
10. A bonus Christmas collage of our grandsons Wyatt and Mason.
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"Nature unfolds her treasure at the first ray of sunrise."
Sunrise from our balcony at the Rose Hall Beach Resort Jamaica
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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.
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Thanks to all my visitors and for your past and present comments. Stop back to see any replies to your comments. I appreciate everyone who loves and respects wildlife. Thank you for linking up a critter post.
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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.
Happy Monday! Wishing everyone a great day and happy new week!
"Travel is my therapy."
"Life is a journey make the most of it."
"We take photos as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone."
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