Cuba Birding - 2nd-9th March 2005

Hotel Pinares De Mayari
The Restaurant

Hotel Pinares De Mayari
The view from our room.

Hotel Pinares De Mayari
The grounds

Pinares De Mayari
The track up the mountain

Pinares De Mayari
The track up the mountain.  There were many tiny red flowers in the bushes that were presumably attractive to hummingbirds.

Villa El Salton
Bird friendly hotel!

Villa El Salton
The waterfall.  This was very productive for birds.

Scene on the hills above the Villa El Salton.  This is a farmed area.  Even in the woods Cocoa was being grown.

Dave and Ricardo searching for a Cuban Vireo which was calling in the distance.

The cloud forest on the north side of the Sierra Maestra Mountains.

The southern side of the Sierra Menstra mountains were much dryer with more scrub and less trees.

Cabo Cruz - A headland on the south side of the island - A small village exists at the headland.  The lagoons just north of the village were teeming with waders, herons, etc.  A seawatch produced Magnificent Frigatebird, Royal and Caspian Terns.

A small mixed plantation at Najasa produced Plain Pigeon, Cuban Parakeet and West Indian Woodpecker.

Another of the Palm plantations at Najasa.  Here we unsuccessfully looked for Fernandina's Flicker.

Signs promoting Fidel Castro were not uncommon.

This type of sign was not uncommon in Cuba even though  Che Guevara was killed in 1967.