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Six Jamaican Blackbirds & 2 Crested Quail Doves Spotted on a Birding Excursion from Lime Tree Farm!

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

Last week 3 keen birders from Canada, Simon Gawn, Paul & Ian Jones visited Lime Tree Farm for an intensive 3 days of Birding, on the first day we visited Cinchona where 17 of Jamaica's endemic bird species were sighted along with a a few other rare birds to Jamaica such as a LIncoln Sparrow [...]

ENDEMICS LIE LOW IN COLD WEATHER

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

Some recent Birdwatching guests at Lime Tree Farm, the Whittingham's, did a 3 day programme of Birding Tours, Cinchona, Abbey Green & Hardwar Gap all good locations for seeing birds endemic to Jamaica.
Despite a cold front moving down from the North Amereican mainland which tended to keep the birds away we were still able to [...]

Mountain Whitch sighted at Hollywell on a Excursion from Lime Tree Farm

Sunday, July 27th, 2008

Jamaican birdwatching in the summertime is not quite up to the proliferation of Birds that are sighted in the spring, nevertheless, Doctorbirds(Red billed streamertails )are everywhere. In the early morning the cries of flocks of Yellow Billed parrots "going bush" to feed can be heard from LIme Tree Farm, as they return in the evening with [...]

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    "At Lime Tree Farm I ate some of the best home-style Jamaican food I have ever tasted: traditional breakfasts of breadfruit and fresh ackee - which you can only get in tins in the UK - spicy callaloo soup, fried fresh fish and desserts of mango or faultless, sticky coconut macaroons."


    Lesley Thomas
    The Guardian