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OLDER POST:Dolphin Trainer with a Baby Dolphin in CuracaoNEWER POST:Christoffel Park, Mount Christoffel, CuracaoJan 6, 10 Comments Off
 Osprey Good evening from Curacao! I had mentioned seeing an Osprey the other day at work and since a few readers have requested the photo so here you go. This is our resident Osprey, in Dutch it’s called a Visarend and here on the island they call it a Gabilan Piskado, or Gibilan di Lamen. These birds are some of the greatest hunters you will ever see. They fly low over the water and snatch fish from just below the waters surface and from what I have seen they love Blue Tangs, that seems to be their favorite food. There have been countless days at the aquarium when we have all watched this Osprey fly down or dive into the ocean and come out with a fish, and many times when they dive they become completely submerged. There have been known cases of these birds grabbing to big of a fish and drowning, once those claws are locked they are locked they can not be retracted. I also found out today that they do not breed on our islands, I thought that was pretty interesting.
Today was a very busy day at work but we were visited by twelve lovely beauty queens from twelve other islands. They were all the individual winners of their own separate carnivals and all of them were very beautiful, I had to take photos, yeah poor me!!
Sully is doing great, you can Google him “Sully the Whale San Diego Sea World” or look up George Kieffer.
That’s about it, Aimee and Emily went to a party, it’s just me and the dogs! Oh yeah speaking of dogs, last night when Aimee and Emily took the dogs for a walk, Indi found a dead dog to roll in!! The smell was so bad Aimee had to drive Inca home and Emily volunteered to run Indi home on the leash, it was about a mile and once home Indi spent the next hour being washed!! Yucko!! See you tomorrow, Barry
OLDER POST:Dolphin Trainer with a Baby Dolphin in CuracaoNEWER POST:Christoffel Park, Mount Christoffel, CuracaoSITE MAP
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