April Images: First Half Of the Month

I had a slow photographic and birding start to the month of April, but I am happy to still be able to share a few images with you.   As we approach the end of the month I will be searching for birds migrating north to their breeding grounds, but for now please enjoy this mixture of some of our locally nesting birds, starting with portraits of two iconic local species -    

Grey Kingbird

Carib Grackle

Juvenile Common Gallinule in the canal at Graeme Hall Swamp

Juvenile Common Gallinule again

A Cattle Egret with dirty plumage from the ash fall from the La Soufriere volcano in the neighboring island of St. Vincent 

Snowy Egret at Chancery Lane 

The tinny Black-faced Grassquit

Adult Black-crowned Nightheron

oops! not a local breeder but a migrating visitor,
 Short-billed Dowitcher