That's very weird! I see Pelicans, Gulls, Sugar Birds, Crows, and others I don't even recognize.....where were you staying?

and bananaquits and regular brown sparrows and egrets and threshies and hawks and doves and [of course] chickens [but you probably werent counting them eh?]

OK I drink a little.....but a pellican is not really a bird.

I was on St. Thomas and St. John and did not see small birds, either. I saw pelicans and some other seabirds, but not all the small songbirds that I am used to from home. I thought there would be more in the National Park on St. John, but it was very quiet there, too. Maybe there are too many rats, cats and mongoose, they eat eggs and little birds.

Trish,
A pelican is "not really a bird"? What is it then, a fish? What are you drinking girl?

I think that Trish has spent too much time at the Green House during their two for one happy hour.....

Lol, might be. I forgot to mention the chicken, I saw lots of them. The one at the Hardrock Cafe was the best. 🙂

Pelicans look a lot like those flying dinosaurs, don't you think??? 🙂

i forgot to add, lots of different types of hummingbirds too. but im sure theyre 'not birds' either, being so small and bee-like. 😉

to get the tiny birds, the first day youre here, put a little container [or saucer, whatever] of sugar out on the deck or balcony. [where it wont get wet] within a few days the bananaquits [little birds, kind of like northeast's chickadee, with a bright yellow breast. cute] should find it, tell all their friends, and they wont leave till it's all gone. when walking through cruz bay, look upstairs to the balcony above mooie's bar, they sometimes have a hanging sugar-feeder, and when it's full, there are probably a hundred bananaquits in the area

the threshies eat many small bird eggs too [i dont know threshie's real name-- theyre sor of like a blue-eyed mockingbird, theyre really agressive [will steal food from your hand at the beach sometimes] and they pick up sounds just like mockingbirds-- other bird noises, all sorts of squaks and things, and even stupid things like phone ringing noises =p

Oh, right, now that you mention it, I saw one humming bird in the hotel garden. I even recognized it as a bird this time. When I saw my first humming bird, in the Colorado Rockies, I really thought it was a huge moth or bumble bee, it was so noisy. We don't have this type of birds here. 🙂

Trish you must've had one too many Painkillers, or some of the old Belladonna run drink mixtures (they used to put morning glory seed and baby woodrose seed extract ---one way trip to rainbowland)! As you can tell from the posts, there's a ton of birds, and at last count Pelicans are still counted as birds, in the VI. The most famous one of all is the Snipe! Did you see the famous Cruzan Snipe?

OK OK maybe I asked the wrong question. Somehow I forgot that I may be talking to people in St Croix. I never considered chickens and pelicans birds. A bird sings real nice in the trees and makes for a beautiful morning. I was not talking about those huge things that can crack a branch if they sit on it or squawk and shriek instead of sing. I was also going to ask why there are so many of the same looking brown dogs there but after this post I wouldn't dare.

LOL! The dogs are all Cruzan Terriers & Setters -- the purest breeds of dogs on STX [;-)) !!

There are song birds also. You may have to do a bit of harder looking. They tend to be more in the woods, and in the rain forerst on the west end of the island. However, the sugar birds are aplenty all over the place. And, I no longer live on STX so, you're talking to at least on continental.