1-13 of 52 in '25

While writing my end of year post I hinted at a potential project for this year - a bold move in uncertain times but one that is theoretically supposed to provide some level of encouragement for me to consistently use my camera. Committing to make at least one image each week for the entire year should ensure that my camera doesn't sit around gathering dust. In 2010 I attempted an even more ambitious photo-a-day project, got as far as August before faltering.

So let this begin at the end of the first quarter of 2025 - week numbers 1 through 13 for now. Fingers crossed that in three months we'll have another set of 13 to add to this!

1: A Bay-headed Tanager at a fruit feeder at Bajnath's Estate.

2: The ultra-mega-rarity of the Caribbean, an Imperial Amazon.

3: Another of the endemic Amazona parrots in the Lesser Antilles that always looks like it's just flown through a rainbow: St. Lucia Amazon.

4: A Copper-rumped Hummingbird outside our front door. Full disclosure: the week was almost over and I hadn't made a single image. With about quarter hour of daylight remaining, it was a matter of urgency.

5: Hearing a Streak-headed Woodcreeper is much more commonplace than seeing one, but these tiny terrors reveal themselves to patient observers.

6: Parrots are tremendously popular all around, we were gifted with an unexpected sighting of over 20 St. Vincent Amazons that properly surrounded us.

7: After seeing innumerable images of North American warblers singing, I wanted to try catching one of our resident warblers in the act - thankfully I was able to with this St. Lucia Warbler in mid-song.

8: Taking the road less traveled one morning led me through a mixed flock of Shiny Cowbirds and these migratory Dickcissel (pictured) feeding in a recently burnt field.

9: A hunt for a snipe turned up a number of breeding pairs of Grassland Yellow-Finches - read more about my personal journey with these birds here.

10: Crimson-crested Woodpecker getting some sugary content in the form of ripe papaya.

11: I've always enjoyed making skyscapes, this one features a Southern Rough-winged Swallow.

12: A female Golden-olive Woodpecker peeks out of her nest-hole.

13: We came upon a flock of Tricolored Munia feeding in the rain. Each time they'd fly, they'd come closer and closer, until the entire flock of at least several hundred birds blasted off in a whirling mass.