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This Morning Outsideby Diane PorterApril 28, 2010 Warblers have just started showing up around Birdwatching Dot Com, in Iowa. But a week ago I was watching "our" warblers in Jamaica. Warblers are common in Jamaica during winter and migration time. Most of these will be heading to the continent of North America to breed. There is only one warbler (the arrow-headed warbler) that stays in Jamaica and never leaves the island.
The female Cape May warbler above came close to the porch where our group of birders was eating lunch in the open air at Forres Park Lodge, in the Blue Mountains.
And there is a lot of coffee being grown in Jamaica's Blue Mountains. Black-throated blue warblers do especially well in plantations where the coffee is grown as an understory plant intermixed with taller trees. The coffee worker in the yellow coat is standing on the tops of the coffee bushes to pick the ripe red coffee berries. Jamaica Birds Book |
Another warbler that seemed to be everywhere we went in Jamaica was one that I see rarely in Iowa — the black-throated blue warbler. It was abundant wherever coffee was being grown.