By: Michael Ryan As is customary, in early October every year, there is a quiet celebration of International Migratory Bird Day (I.M.B.D.) in St. Kitts. I.M.B.D. is celebrated throughout North, Central & South America, and the Caribbean, on the second Saturday of October, every year. In my case, I generally go birding for 2 full days, which will consume about […]
FIFTH NEW BIRD FOR ST.KITTS IN 2017
By: Michael Ryan On Saturday October 28, I decided to go to the golf club and just practice a little chipping and putting. As I arrived at the putting green I casually looked to my left at the adjacent pond, and nearly fell down in shock!! About 30 yards away was a large brown bird with a large down-curved bill. […]
FOURTH NEW BIRD DISCOVERED IN ST. KITTS IN 2017!!!
By: Mikey Ryan On day two of my annual bird species count in St .Kitts, I decided to head up to Wingfield level in the Mountains. Arriving there at 7:00 am, I ventured up the dirt road under the canopy of trees. A movement on the ground caught my eye, and I spotted a bird which was hopping along the […]
THIRD NEW BIRD FOR ST.KITTS IN 2017
By Michael Ryan: October 8, 2017. On Sunday morning, October 1st, I was playing a round of golf at the Royal St. Kitts Golf Course at Frigate Bay. On the 14th hole there were a few waders on the fairway, which I hardly gave a glance, until one of them caught my eye. Initially, I thought it was a Lesser […]
THIRD NEW BIRD FOR ST.KITTS IN 2017
By Michael Ryan — October 8, 2017. On Sunday morning, October 1st, I was playing a round of golf at the Royal St. Kitts Golf Course at Frigate Bay. On the 14th hole there were a few waders on the fairway, which I hardly gave a glance, until one of them caught my eye. Initially, I thought it was a […]
ANOTHER NEW BIRD FOR ST.KITTS – APRIL 2017
By Michael Ryan Following the first sighting of the Shiny Cowbird in St. Kitts earlier this month, another new bird has just been spotted. On the Easter Weekend, on Sunday, April 16, I was birdwatching on the South East Peninsula in the woodlands a bit south of the Christophe Harbour’s Pavilion restaurant, when I saw movement in the top of […]
2017 — FIRST NEW BIRD FOR ST.KITTS (BUT NOT FOR NEVIS)
Some birds are expanding their range throughout the Caribbean, generally heading northwards. We have recently recorded a couple of birds that were first (and recently) spotted in Nevis but had never been seen here. I got a call from Stacy Hobson, who lives in the hills overlooking the capital of St. Kitts, Basseterre, that there was an unidentified bird feeding […]
THE END OF A GREAT BIRDING SPOT!!
F March 12, 2017 — Michael Ryan The End of the Greatest Birding Spot!! All good things come to an end! One of the best birding hotspots in St.Kitts came to its natural closure this week! “The waterhole” on the South East Peninsula was a small pond just off of the main road which was initially thought to collect the […]
New bird specie record for I.M.B.D. 2016!
By: Michael Ryan At last! An opportunity to get out in the field again after being consumed by work for so long! For the seventh time in eight years, a quiet celebration of the International Migratory Bird Day took place in St. Kitts. I.M.B.D is celebrated in the Caribbean on or around the second Saturday in October. As is customary […]
No luck with the Pewee!
April 17, 2016 By: Michael Ryan I have not gone birding for some time so I decided load up my binos and camera, and look specifically for a very rare bird in St. Kitts, and last sighted in the 1980’s, the Lesser Antillean Pewee. I chose the area in the woods well to the South of the Christophe Harbour’s Pavilion […]