Kauai, November 2014

Here is a selection of photos from our recent trip to the beautiful island of Kauai. These are from my main camera, and don't include some botanical subjects I might add later.  I still have the photos and videos from our other three cameras to examine and edit.  But please enjoy this first set ...

Spotted Dove (Streptopelia chinensis)

Zebra Dove (Geopelia striata)

Common Myna (Acridotheres tristis)

Intermediate Egret (Egretta intermedia)

Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis)

Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis)

Red Crested (Brazilian) Cardinal (Paroaria coronata)

White Rumped Shama (Copsychus malabaricus)

Red Junglefowl (Gallus gallus)

Japanese White Eye (Zosterops japonicus)

Northern Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos)

Lesser Golden Plover (Pluvialis dominica)

Black Necked Stilt (Himantopus mexicanus)

Erckel's Francolin (Francolinus erckelii)

Red Footed Booby (Sula sula)

White Tailed Tropicbird (Phaethon lepturus)

Wedge Tailed Shearwater (Puffinus pacificus)

 Hawaiian Goose (Nesochen sandvicensis), also known as the Nene, and the state bird of Hawaii

Java Sparrow (Padda oryzivora) ... crappy picture ... I got better pictures of this species 10 years ago on the Big Island (Hawaii)

Chestnut Mannikin (Lonchura malacca) ... again a crappy picture, but all I could manage

And now some miscellaneous, non-bird photos ...

Anole lizard on papaya 

An orange butterfly 

Another view of the same butterfly

A fiddlehead on a giant tree fern

A yellow and black butterfly (swallowtail?)

A bumblebee

A tiny crab, about the size of a dime

Mahalo for visiting!