Yesterday we flew into Montego Bay to join the sailboat Mantra owned by our friends Peter and Sherri. Sherri is in the US right now but will be back in Jamaica in few days, and we will help sail the boat to Colombia. In the mean time we get to be tourists. This morning we took our rented car up a steep, winding, narrow, busy mountain road to a steep, winding, narrow, badly-surfaced, single track but thankfully not quite as busy mountain road, which led to a bird sanctuary.

This is a Doctor Bird or Red-billed Streamertail or Scissor-tail Hummingbird (Trochilus Polytmus). It’s the national bird of Jamaica, and that’s Paula hand feeding one.

One of the guides explains that the Doctor Bird name is because the long tail looked like the frock coat that doctors used to wear.

The Rocklands Bird Sanctuary doesn’t just have Doctor Birds. There are lots of Bananaquits around.

I’m not sure if this is the original Yellow Bird Way Up In Banana Tree or if it was the much larger Jamaican Oriole.

As well as the Bananaquit, there’s also an Orangequit, which is disappointingly not orange, but mostly blue.

The Yellow-faced Grasquit does have yellow markings on his face, provided you are looking at a male.

The female that stopped by to try to hit Paula up for some birdseed not so much.

The Jamaican Mango is not mango colored.

Though the white chinned thrush does have a little tuft of white on its chin.

The White-winged Dove only has a strip of white on its wing.

The Caribbean Dove doesn’t have a color or a fruit in its name. Slacker.

The American Redstart is black and orange.

Then this guy reminded us it was lunchtime.

So off we went to find a restaurant with a view.

We ended up eating at the Coastline Bar and Grill, a hole in the wall bar with several wooden gazebos on the roof with a table in each. There was no menu but we chatted with the cook about what fish we would like and how it should be cooked. While we were waiting we watched the frigate birds, egrets and pelicans flying by. The food was delicious.