Delicate Nest

Mike Warner

One day when we were on St. Thomas Island, U.S. Virgin Islands we took our rental car on the car ferry to St. John’s Island (less than 30 minutes away) and drove to Saltpond Beach.  It was a beautiful expanse of white sand along Saltpond Bay.  Once there we took the Saltpond Trail (not very inventive in their names there) which led to a beach with very rough surf crashing on the rocky beach.  On the trail back we spotted a Green-throated Carib and watched it fly into a bunch of reeds.  When we peered inside, there was the hummer sitting on a nest!  Look how delicate, yet well-formed the nest looks!

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