Cuba 2014
Female Oriental Scarlet
Female Roseatte Skimmer
Male Seaside Dragonlet
Male Oriental Scarlet
Male Metallic Pennant
Cuban Brown Anole
Cuban Tree Frog
Praying Mantis eating butterfly
Spider with grasshopper prey
Female Band-winged Dragonlet
Male Great Pondhawk
Cuban Curlytail Lizard
Cuban Calisto
White Peacock
Tropical Buckeye
Zebra Longwing
Julia Butterfly
Mating Gulf Fritillarys
Barred Yellow
Dina Yellow
Orange-barred Sulphur
Male Orange-barred Sulphur
White-angled Sulphur
Gulf Fritillary
Nickerbean Blue
Martial Scrub Hairstreak
Mallow Scrub Hairstreak
Hanno Blue
Disguised Scrub Hairstreak
Cassius Blue
Dorantes Longtail
Fiery Skipper
Long-tailed Skipper
Monk Skipper
Three-spotted Skipper
Atala Butterfly
Cuban Flasher
Zapata Sparrow
Western Spindalis
West Indian Woodpecker
Turkey Vulture in flight
Turkey Vulture
Least Sandpiper bathing
Loggerhead Kingbird
Oriente Warbler
Red-legged Thrush
Roseatte Spoonbill
Roseatte Spoonbills
La Sagra's Flycatcher
Killdeer
Killdeer
Grey-fronted Quail-Dove
Greater Antillean Grackle
Cuban Trogon
Cuban Parakeet
Cuban Parakeets
Cuban Pewee
Cuban Pygmy Owl
Cuban Pygmy Owl
Cuban Tody
Cuban Oriole
Cuban Green Woodpecker
Cuban Gnatcatcher
Cuban Emerald
Cuban Bullfinch
Cuban Amazons
Male Bee Hummingbird
Female Bee Hummingbird
Black-and-White Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Blue-headed Quail Dove
Cuban Amazon
Bare-legged Owl portrait
Bare-legged Owl
Baltimore Oriole
Bahama Mockingbird
Pair of American Kestrels
American Flamingos
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We visited Cuba in late January/early February 2014 as part of a group of 12 on a trip organised by Josele Saiz who founded the Boletas Birdwatching Centre based in the Spanish Pyrenees. Josele led the trip supported by two expert local guides; Orestes Martinez for birds and Raynier Nunez for butterflies. After a night in Havana, we set off for the Hotel Rancho San Vicente in the Vinales region, visiting the Nina Bonita Reservoir and Soroa on the way. We then moved on to the Zapata National Park, using the Hotel Playa Larga on the coast as a base. Our next destination was a private ranch, Finca La Belen in the Camaguey province, from where we visited Laguna Blanca and Najasa Nature Reserve before moving to a holiday resort hotel at Cayo Coco on the north coast.