Antigua Day 2, DSLR Part 1

Sooty Tern
On our second day in Antigua, we spent a brief time in the morning in the gardens of the Siboney Beach Club, before sildling down the white coral sand beach to pic up our catamaran outsie Sandals. Our destination was Bird Island, home to a large Sooty Tern colony, with smaller numbers of Brown Noddies and Laughing Gulls. It was simply fantastic to walk among the nesting terns, trying to disturb them as little as possible...

Female Antillean Crested Hummingbird

Male Lesser Antillean Bullfinch

Zenaida Dove


Gecko sp

Laughing Gull



Sooty Terns

Magnificent Frigatebird

Bridled Tern

Sooty Tern

Brown Noddies


Brown Boobies

Laughing Gull








Sooty Terns

Green-throated Carib trying to see off a blue Budgie from its nest site...

Antigua Day 1, DSLR Part 1

These shots were taken with my DSLR in the area around Dickenson Bay, Antigua, including an excellent mixed heron/egret and pelican colony.

Probably Tricoloured Heron chicks


Bananaquits

Black-necked Stilt


Carib Grackles, including a youngster begging in a bin

Great White Egret over the colony


Snowy Egrets

Egrets and Brown Pelicans

Least Tern (note grey rump compared to Little Tern)

Antigua Day 1, Digiscoping Part 1

Here are some digiscoped images from our first day on a 'Fam Trip' to the Lesser Antillean islands of Antigua & Barbuda, Montserrat and Dominica. This first bunch are from the inlet outside the Siboney Beach Club, Dickenson Bay, Antigua.


Black-necked Stilt

Siboney Beach Club garden

'Baby' Brown Pelican

Grey Kingbird

Black-necked Stilt


Bahama or White-cheeked Pintail



Common Ground-dove

Mixed flock of dowitchers (probably Short-billed), Turnstones, Sandwich Terns, Brown Pelican and Laughing Gulls

Young juvenile Black-necked Stilt




Wilson's Plover

Royal Tern

Guess what I am?

Your clue: the photographer (ie Mike 'Weed' Weedon of Weedon's World of Nature) has just returned from a trip to the Lesser Antilles.