A couple of months ago, Bob Orenstein emailed me concerning a birding expedition with a difference. Bob had previously been on a birding tour of Jamaica & had seen all but one of Jamaica’s endemics. The missing link happened to be the Jamaican Blackbird – there are estimated to be about 2,000 of these birds [...]

We have recently found a real gem of a birding site on our doorstep – The Old Mine Road is named after a Marble Mine that used to be mined in the 70′s deep in the forest just 15 minutes drive from here. This is the last real pocket of indigenous forest close to us [...]

WE recently had 2 Danish guests visit for a week – Inger Norreskov Jensen & her son Stellen were keen to see Jamaica’s endemic birds. The weather was terrible for this time of year but despite a few wet birding excursions we managed to spot a large proportion of Jamaica’s endemics including the illusive Crested [...]