juvenile Green Heron 14 Jun 2019 © Tim Norriss
There is a small restaurant at the Hotel Melia Cayo Coco in one of the buildings built in the lagoon and we went there for breakfast this morning. Just outside the windows were two mangrove bushes and in one of them There was a Greater Antillean Grackle nest and in the other a Green Heron nest from which a youngster had recently fledged. Apparently the Grackles had taken one of the two eggs early on.
A walk around the lagoon later produced some other nice birds including Cuban Lizard Cuckoo, Cuban Today, Tricolored Heron, Cuban Martin, American Kestrel and Red-legged Thrush which is the Cuban national bird.
A walk around the lagoon later produced some other nice birds including Cuban Lizard Cuckoo, Cuban Today, Tricolored Heron, Cuban Martin, American Kestrel and Red-legged Thrush which is the Cuban national bird.
Cuban Tody 14 Jun 2019 © Tim Norriss
Red-legged Thrush 14 Jun 2019 © Tim Norriss
And while watching a Cuban Snout Libytheana motya I became aware of a small bird flitting around me giving alarm calls. It was a Cuban Gnat-catcher carrying food so it must have had a nest nearby. I took a few frames and moved out of its way so it could get to its nest.
Cuban Gnat-catcher 14 Jun 2019 © Tim Norriss
Cuban Gnat-catcher 14 Jun 2019 © Tim Norriss
Cuban Gnat-catcher 14 Jun 2019 © Tim Norriss
Once again there were hundreds of Pygmy Blue Brephidium exilis, and also about 50 Lyside Sulphur Kricogonia lyside, Mangrove Buckeye Junonia nieldi, Florida Purplewing Eunica tatila and the Caribbean Daggerwing Marpesia eleuchea had increased from two yesterday to fifteen today. They all looked very fresh and were nectaring on the Black Mangrove Avicennia germinans. Around the climbing frame were about 50 freshly emerged Ceraunus Blue Hemiargus ceraunus.
Ceraunus Blue Hemiargus ceraunus 14 Jun 2019 © Tim Norriss
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