Bird Island, Seychelles (1 Viewer)

[LMG]

Have just returned from a magical trip to the Seychelles. The highlight was a three day trip to Bird Island. As the name implies, it is a haven for birds. It is a small coral island, with one hotel and thousands of birds!!
While we were there, October 2003, we watched 1.3 million sooty terns, hundreds of common and lesser noddies, about a hundred frigates, loads of fairy terns and tropic birds, wedge tailed shearwaters (we even had one crash land on our terrace!), Indian Mynahs, Madagascar fodies, crested terns, hundreds of barred ground doves, turnstones, sanderlings and crab plovers to name the most common!
I have been putting photos of the birds in the gallery, under Africa, although the isalnds are in the middle of the Indian Ocean. All the birds are so tame, there are no predators, so it is a photographers paradise. The birds all had young or were nesting, another bonus. We even saw a hawksbill turtle lay eggs four hours before we were about to leave! We took over 600 photos, it was an amazing place, a bird lover's paradise. I'd love to return but it is expensive.

 

[smeltmill]

Dear LMG,

May I carry your scope next time.

Regards.
G B-S.

 

[Grousemore]

Sounds like a fantastic trip;I'll check out the pics in the Gallery.

 

[Wildflower]

Dear LMG,
What a place!Four trips to Bird Island and dreaming of another one. Maybe in November 2004. Were you able to sleep at night with all those brown noddies on the roof of your cabin? We were there in June this year when sooty terns were laying eggs. Two million of sooty terns alone!
Did you have sooty tern egg omlet for breakfast? I miss this place. Do you think if we go in the begining of November there are still going to be thousands of baby sooty terns around?
Wildflower of the Adirondacks, USA