Black-headed Gulls were bountiful on the shores of this Caribbean island. Using some treats, I attracted some to my hotel room terrace and soon one gull turned into several. They raised quite a ruckus with their shrills and shreiks. I have a video clip of the ruckus on a YouTube video I just produced about our trip (it's at the very end).
It can be viewed at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izSlqjqifCEProbably the island's most common bird is the Pearly-eyed Thrasher. They have a vibrant and endearing song and always seemed busy, busy. We'd see them around the resort and everywhere else on the island.
I see lots of herons back home but not with the coloring of the one spotted a few times in a marsh at the Westin resort where we stayed. My friend Suzanne helped confirm that this is a Little Blue Heron in the process of changing from white to blue.
My featured last bird I spotted while snorkeling in Leinster Bay. It was cruising the waters below for fish reminding me of the Brown Pelicans seen back home. But I quickly noticed the different profile and thought it may be a Frigatebird. I had seen some of these large birds over the waters of Puerto Rico during our previous Caribbean excursion. I took this photo with my snorkel camera. I was hoping it would fly lower over me but it never did so this was the best I got. I cropped the original to give a better look at it. Later at the hotel I got on the internet and confirmed it to be the mighty Magnificent Frigatebird.
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