Day 5: the rainforest. Left at 7 a.m. for the Tobago Forest Reserve. Our guide, Fitzroy, took us along a stretch of the Gilpin Trace, the old trail across the island. It was mostly easy going, but muddy as heck.
Starting on the trail we saw a jacamar (picture later), palm tanagers, red-legged honeycreepers, blue-backed manakins, a white-tailed sabrewing, and a rufous-breasted hermit (hummingbird). The photos unfortunately are all hopelessly back-lit; always a problem in the forest.
But here’s a tropical kingbird.
A well-fed manicou crab, where previously there were two manicou crabs.
Ya just gotta believe this is a copper-rumped hummingbird.
The forest is full of blue-crowned motmots.
This is a yellow-legged thrush.
A banded antshrike, from a funny angle.
...and a yellow-bellied elaenia, from an even worse angle
Here's an upside down orange-winged parrot.
There were trapdoor spiders all over the place. This looks slightly obscene, but I'm not sure why.
...and a leafcutter ant.
Then we went up to a little hummingbird garden, with feeders. This is like catching fish in a barrel. Here's a white tailed sabrewing, male.
And this is a white-necked jacobin, male.
...and here's a slightly unorthodox view of a rufous-breated hermit, which oddly is easy to identify from the tail feathers
Female white-lined, male white-lined and three palm tanagers of indeterminate sex. I was rather proud of identifying the white-lined tanagers before Fitzroy
I've looked at jacamars from both sides now...
And here's a great black hawk, overhead. Possibly the rarest thing we saw.
Headed back; ate lunch by Miss Margaret at Andy's; vegged away the afternoon; dinner at Sunshine Restaurant and Bar in Bloody Bay with our hosts and Miss Vaness. Peculiarity was that the bar and restaurant were separate, so you had to walk over to the bar to pick up beer to have with your food. I went with the fish again, and was happy with my choice.
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