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Were are the freshwater birding spots in Barbados? What birds can you see there? As 100 barbados birds continue to highlight the birding spot and the birds of the Island check out my latest post as it look at The Woodbourne Shorebird Refuge

jimmmer

Here is a series of photographs of the 1st non breeding Grey Phalarope we saw the other day, at the end is a link to the video I took when the memory card ran out as the bird approached! You'll see in the video that the bird seens to have some problems with it's face or bill as it spends much time scratching itself as it swims along.
http://www.waderquest.org/2012/11/gr...ulicarius.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NotO...w&feature=plcp

Rick and Elis

As you may have realised by now, I'm a farmboy, who thanks to various work and family commitments, tends to do his birding locally. I rarely have the chance to spread my wings and do any birding farther afield. And mostly, this is fine. I work my patches, I enjoy being out in the field for the sake of it, I feel at home, its as comfortable as a pair of slippers.

Sometimes, though, I get hit with a wanderlust, a desire to go birding elsewhere. Usually driven by reports from other...

Green Sandpiper

Long Pond is a favorite with birds in Barbados you can see Shorebirds, Herons, Kingfishers and a number of Passerines birds it will play a major part in my quest for 2013 see Photos of Long Pond Barbados and the birds you can see and follow me @
http://100barbadosbirds.blogspot.com...long-pond.html

jimmmer

Now that was an unusual day.

It started of rather samey with me and Elis trying hard to catch up with everything we needed to do leading up to our trip to the USA on Thursday. However, when Elis discovered that there was a Grey Phalarope near Clevedon in Avon things took on a new urgency. There were two very good reasons for us to try and see this bird, one, it would be a lifer for Elis and the other, it would save us about £1,000 by saving us a trip to Iceland for Wader Quest....

Rick and Elis