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here for Robert's article in the March 2007 Huachuca Audubon Society
Newsletter, The Trogon. The itinerary from Victor Emanuel Nature Tours. Liza's Trip Journal See also the web page for the Portland Bight Protected Area, Jamaica Also the web page for the Old Tavern Coffee Estate ![]() View from our room at the Emerald Escape Beach Resort, Reading district of Montego Bay ![]() Robert watching the bay from our room |
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![]() Robert on the little jetty at the EEBR |
![]() ...and Liza out there, too |
Robert
in the thatched gazebo
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![]() Robert with the main building of the EEBR in the background |
![]() Rockland's Bird Sanctuary, up the road from Montego Bay |
Red-billed streamertail |
Jamaican mango |
A grassquit in the hand is worth... |
![]() Feeding the hummingbirds at Rockland's (hard to tell, but there's a red-billed streamertail feeding from Brynne's (on the left) hand |
![]() Setting up feeders at Rockland's |
![]() Robert on the bus |
![]() The main residence at Marshall's Pen, near Mandeville, the group home for several days; the home is approx 200 years old |
![]() The garden at Marshall's Pen |
Liza in the garden |
![]() Enjoying lunch at Marshall's Pen |
Marshall's Pen |
![]() The guest house at Marshall's Pen, where Robert and I stayed; formerly it was a coffee storage building retrofitted to have comfortable guest rooms |
![]() Brandon Hay, conservationist and our in-country guide, with Ann Sutton, owner of Marshall's Pen |
![]() ...and the gate to what Liza affectionately called the sand-tick trail (no, we didn't really get bit) |
Jamaican oriole |
Jamaican tody |
Fearless leaders Brandon and Brennan |
![]() Breakfast on the road...literally |
![]() Eating breakfast while watching birds |
Birders on a trail |
![]() A roadside fruit stand |
![]() Ok, why can't you shoot on gun club property? Are they anti-gun? |
![]() In search of the Bahama Mockingbird (yes we saw him) |
Clapper rail (yes, he's really in there ...take a closer look) |
Old milestone in the Blue Mountains (they're metric now?) |
![]() Robert at the Starlight Chalet, in the Blue Mountains, where we had an excellent lunch |
![]() Coffee in the Blue Mountains - i.e. real Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee! |
![]() All possible jokes aside, this was a restaurant serving jerk chicken, jerk pork, etc.; for more on jerk, click here! |
![]() Another restaurant... |
![]() The bread sticks (I forgot the name) were similar to hush puppies |
![]() Sign over the jerk centre entrance... |
![]() Jerk still-life...jerk pork, chicken, yams (african), and the bread sticks...and of course, Red Stripe beer to wash it down! |
![]() Happy eaters |
![]() The semi-outdoor cooking area, here are the yams... |
...and here's the chicken and pork... |
![]() and the fried bread |
Coming soon to a jerk center near you... |
![]() Birding is tiring! |
![]() Liza on the bus |
![]() Fellow tourmates! |
Least sandpipers |
Royal terns |
Killdeer |
![]() Along the southern coast east of Kingston |
![]() Another coast view, somewhere out there is a white speck of a white-tailed tropicbird |
Anglican church along the southern coast |
![]() VENT leader Brennan Mulrooney going over the list at the final dinner in Kingston |
Jamaican mango |
White-chinned thrush |
Orangequit |
![]() Red-billed streamertail (minus streamers) |
Loggerhead kingbird |
Red-billed streamertail |
Jamaican lizard-cuckoo |
![]() Black-billed parrot |