Good evening from a little place called Curacao!  I was just thinking before we came here I never even heard of this island??  And I can still remember Aimee getting that phone call from our friend George asking if she was still interested in a dolphin job and the look on her face when she hung up.  We both had to get a World map out and find this place, Bonaire and Aruba you always here about but Curacao, most people can’t even say the name correctly? 

 

As promised here is another hummingbird photo for you, this time mamma feeding her just born babies.  I think Cival and I were both shocked when we saw how far momma stuck her beak down the babies throat to feed, you really almost have to see it to believe it!  In the time we were there we watched mamma feed her babies three times and after each feeding she would then lay on them for around ten to fifteen minutes.  As you can see the baby doesn’t even have it’s eyes open yet.  We also noticed that when the babies poop they push their butts up and over the edge of the nest and poop out of the nest, that’s what you call early potty training!!  Not sure what mamma was feeding them but it was in liquid form.

 

That’s about it, felt terrible this morning but a bit better now.  Talk to you tomorrow, Barry

03-20-2009