Rainy November Birding

This morning’s weather prompted me to make a trip to the northern parish of St. Lucy in the hope of seeing migratory warblers.  It was very overcast with periods of rain, the type of weather that may briefly interrupt the journey of these small travelers.  Sadly, for me,  I saw not one migratory warbler but did see over 40 species, including two Upland Sandpipers, a year bird for me. This increased my local tally to 104 species for the year. 

See the morning’s checklist along with a few images:

1. Black-bellied Whistling-Duck - Dendrocygna autumnalis
2. Blue-winged Teal - Spatula discors
3. Scaly-naped Pigeon - Patagioenas squamosa
4. Eurasian Collared-Dove - Streptopelia decaocto
5. Common Ground Dove - Columbina passerina
6. Zenaida Dove - Zenaida aurita
7. Yellow-billed Cuckoo - Coccyzus americanus
8. Antillean Crested Hummingbird - Orthorhyncus cristatus
9. Common Gallinule - Gallinula galeata
10. American Golden-Plover - Pluvialis dominica
11. Southern Lapwing - Vanellus chilensis
12. Semipalmated Plover - Charadrius semipalmatus
13. Upland Sandpiper - Bartramia longicauda
14. Ruddy Turnstone - Arenaria interpres
15. Least Sandpiper - Calidris minutilla
16. White-rumped Sandpiper - Calidris fuscicollis
17. Pectoral Sandpiper - Calidris melanotos
18. Semipalmated Sandpiper - Calidris pusilla
19. Wilson's Snipe - Gallinago delicata
20. Spotted Sandpiper - Actitis macularius
21. Greater Yellowlegs - Tringa melanoleuca
22. Lesser Yellowlegs - Tringa flavipes
23. Great Blue Heron - Ardea herodias
24. Great Egret - Ardea alba
25. Little Egret - Egretta garzetta
26. Snowy Egret - Egretta thula
27. Little Blue Heron - Egretta caerulea
28. Cattle Egret - Bubulcus ibis
29. Green Heron - Butorides virescens
30. Glossy Ibis - Plegadis falcinellus
31. Rose-ringed Parakeet - Psittacula krameri
32. Caribbean Elaenia - Elaenia martinica
33. Gray Kingbird - Tyrannus dominicensis
34. Black-whiskered Vireo - Vireo altiloquus
35. Barn Swallow - Hirundo rustica
36. Shiny Cowbird - Molothrus bonariensis
37. Carib Grackle - Quiscalus lugubris
38. Yellow Warbler - Setophaga petechia
39. Grassland Yellow-Finch - Sicalis luteola
40. Bananaquit - Coereba flaveola
41. Barbados Bullfinch - Loxigilla barbadensis
42. Black-faced Grassquit - Melanospiza bicolor

Wilson's Snipe - the master of camouflage

Yellow-billed Cuckoo #1

Yellow-billed Cuckoo #2

American Golden-Plover

Great Blue Heron

Cattle Egret