Logwood trees can still be found scattered around the property. The Spanish identified the indigenous pimento tree in 1509 but it was almost two hundred years later before its dried berries, allspice, were first marketed in London. At Fonthill, pimento trees grow in the hills behind the narrow coastal strip where cattle still graze and goats wear cumbersome wooden collars to prevent their escape through the barbed wire fence. The Fonthill Wildlife Sanctuary includes a coastal mangrove preserve to protect the locally endangered American crocodile. They are best viewed early in the morning and a warden is available to accompany visitors to their favorite sunning spots.
Birds are plentiful here.
While privately owned, Fonthill was a popular hunting site for 'bird shooters' whose preferred game were the pigeons and doves from the Columbidae family and especially the Bald Pate that makes its nest in the pimento trees on the property. They feed on the ripened pimento berries and sea grapes that grow along the narrow, golden sand beach. Cattle egrets are plentiful around cattle ranches where they can be seen eating the ticks off the animals. In the evening, they roost in the nearby mangrove trees in such great numbers that the trees become a mass of white. Other water loving birds found here are black-billed whistling ducks, lunate bluewings, jacanas, herons and pelicans.