In a matter of hours the British winter I was struggling through has turned into Caribbean sunshine and I am now a very happy lad! So I'm back on Bonaire and it feels like home. Seeing the parrots again has been wonderful. If you have never watched wild parrots fly then you really owe it to yourself and to your companions. It is amazing!
So this season is going to be a busy one. In a few weeks we have a team of volunteers coming out here to conduct nest searches. There is a lot of the island Rowan and I simply did not get to cover last year. So we have recruited a bunch of folk in the hope we'll get a better feeling of how many birds are nesting and to boost our sample sizes. We'll be following the successes of the pairs and getting to know their chicks like they were our own. (That's not so scientific eh! But that's how it is for me!)
I will again be looking at the habitat and what the birds do in it. This year I get to watch the birds themselves a bit more as I'll be doing feeding observations and working out what they are eating in different places and how long it takes them to process the different food items. More on that another time.
The island seems a lot drier than last year and this will certainly have an effect on the birds. In truth I have seen a difference already. There are birds in the town and they don't normally go there until a little later in the year. We'll have to see how it all comes together - I'm so excited, I can't wait!!!!!
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