Birding/ Bird watching in Nadi, Fiji

Birding/ Bird watching in Nadi, Fiji
Thursday 28th of September 2017 and the driver was waiting on the parking lot. We started by taking off to Pehicle Tours to pay for my “Bird mobile”, a 4 wheel drive that we will use for 2 Pehicle Toursdays in Suva for bird watching when I'm coming back from Tonga.

I could not believe my luck! We were ending up in a traffic jam. YES! Traffic jam in Nadi, Fiji. They are doing some road work and we were hardly moving. First the delay in Auckland and now stuck in traffic. How much time will I have for bird watching today?

I paid for the car and as I had forgot my adapter in Air New Zealand’s lounge we stopped to buy 2 adapters for Fiji sockets so I can use my European plug. It was kind of late when i was back at the hotel. But as I had invested in the flash a few months ago in Singapore I decided to go look for birds.

I start by walking down the “wildside” of the hotel. I had forgot to ask about snakes and other things attacking bird watchers so I stayed on the dirt track. As no surprise I ran in to several Red-vented Bulbuls. They are all over Fiji together with the Common and Jungle Mynas.

30 meters down the dirt track and I spotted a Fiji Parrotfinch but the bird was gone before I managed to get it in focus. I spotted a Vanikoro flycatcher

Red-vented Bulbul, Pycnonotus cafer
Red-vented Bulbul

Birding/ Bird watching at Fiji Gateway Hotel in Nadi, Fiji
Walking down the dirt track next to the hotel

Birding/ Bird watching at Fiji Gateway Hotel in Nadi, Fiji
Walking down the dirt track next to the hotel

Birding/ Bird watching at Fiji Gateway Hotel in Nadi, Fiji - Fiji Parrotfinch
Fiji Parrotfinch out of focus

Vanikoro flycatcher, Myiagra vanikorensis
Vanikoro flycatcher

Birding/ Bird watching at Fiji Gateway Hotel in Nadi, Fiji
I reach the end of the dirt track

I walked for about 100 meters and then there was a fence and I had to walk back up to the parking lot. My constitutional Yet another Smiley on www.aladdin.st down the dirt track had given me 2 new birds, but not any good pictures. But I'm not giving up.

I walked around on the lawn in front of the hotel and I saw, of course, more Red-vented Bulbuls. I also saw the Fiji Parrotfinch, but that is a very scared bird so no pictures. I saw a Fiji Woodswallow and of course many Mynas. I also saw some small birds that I never managed to get on pictures. They have a train on the lawn and I used the train to try to sneak up on the birds, but no success.

I had seen the back of the hotel from my window and it is beautiful with flowers and trees, there must be a lot of birds, but I was not allowed to go out there. STAFF ONLY! So I was wondering what they were doing there that the guests are not allowed to know about.

Birding/ Bird watching at Fiji Gateway Hotel in Nadi, Fiji
They have a train on the lawn

Red-vented Bulbul, Pycnonotus cafer
Red-vented Bulbul

Fiji woodswallow, Artamus mentalis
Fiji woodswallow

Red-vented Bulbul, Pycnonotus cafer
Red-vented Bulbul

Red-vented Bulbul, Pycnonotus cafer
Red-vented Bulbul

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Birding/ Bird watching at Fiji Gateway Hotel in Nadi, Fiji
Dinner, 2 plates of Bangers & mash

I walk around for 2 hours or so and I give up when it is too dark. I had 2 plates of Bangers & mash for dinner, 2 pots of Earl Grey tea and I was off to my room. The taxi driver will come to pick me up at 7 o'clock tomorrow morning. Then we're off for a day of bird watching here around Nadi. If I have any luck? Just to click HERE to find out.

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Birding/ Bird watching in Nadi, Fiji

       
                  
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