RUDDY TURNSTONE, BLUE WATERS INN, SPEYSIDE, TOBAGO, TRINIDAD & TOBAGO

   Although this Ruddy Turnstone is mostly in nonbreeding plumage, it is just starting to molt into breeding plumage.  You can see the chestnut color of the breeding plumage starting to appear.

ADULT STREAKED FLYCATCHER & CHICK AT NEST IN ELECTRIC POLE, SPEYSIDE, TOBAGO, TRINIDAD & TOBAGO

      This Streaked Flycatcher picked an interesting place to put its nest: the hollow top of a electric pole.  The flycatcher probably built it's nest on top of the bolt just below the top of the pole.  In the first photo you can see the adult flycatcher on top of the pole and the beak of the chick sticking out of the top of the pole.  In the second photo you can see the beaak and top of the head sticking out.

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TOBAGO MAIN RIDGE FOREST RESERVE, TRINIDAD & TOBAGO

  After driving into the Main Ridge Forest Reserve we came across the sign in the second photo.   The James Path of the second photo was named after our Tobago birding guide's (our guide's name was Gladwyn James) father.   Further along we stopped, after lunch, at the Gilpin Trace trail.  This is one of the main trails in the reserve for sighting birds.

FEMALE RUFOUS-TAILED JACAMAR, TOBAGO MAIN RIDGE FOREST PRESERVE, TRINIDAD & TOBAGO

BLUE-BACKED MANAKIN, TOBAGO MAIN RIDGE FOREST PRESERVE, TRINIDAD & TOBAGO

    We can ID this bird as a male Blue-backed Manakin by its generally black color with a scarlet V-shaped patch on crown and a sky blue mantle.
   The Blue-backed Manakin is a new species to our Photographic Life List, which now stands at 589a.

STREAKED FLYCATCHER, TOBAGO MAIN RIDGE FOREST PRESERVE, TRINIDAD & TOBAGO

MALE SHINY COWBIRD, TOBAGO MAIN RIDGE FOREST PRESERVE, TRINIDAD & TOBAGO