Good evening friends, still fighting this stupid cold but had a fun day just the same.  Aimee called me this morning from another part of the island saying she saw some young flamingo’s wading in the water close to the road.  So I quickly ran over to my friend Cival’s house, picked him up and away we went.  When we got there we found the flamingo’s but they were now to far away to get a nice shot.  I tried walking out in the water to get closer but the mud was to deep and almost lost my shoes in the process.  There must have been well over a hundred adults and twenty youngsters.  The adults were glowing pink and the youngsters were a whitish grey color and we noticed that none of the young ones were in the main group they were always on the outside by themselves?  So after that little adventure and a bunch of driving around we headed back into town.  Cival sent me some photos a few days ago of a hummingbird that was now nesting in a palm tree at his grandmas house so figured we would go shoot that instead.  When we got there I was thinking, ok this is a nesting hummingbird so it’s most likely going to have a nest that is very well hidden and will be tough to shoot.  Boy was I wrong!  This beautiful momma has made a nest about four feet off the ground right along his Grandma’s main walkway on the top of the highest palm leaf and seems to have no fear of humans at all.  We set up our cameras and tripods about a foot and a half from her nest and she could have cared less?  We watched for hours as she fed her two babies and sat on them as you see here, yes under her are two live babies, will send that shot tomorrow, it’s so cool.  The tiny nest was built from every possible thing you could imagine, I even saw many pieces of hair, fabric and cotton.  Many thanks again Cival, I had a great time can hardly wait to show her to Aimee on Sunday! 

 

That’s about it, not feeling so great now.  Bye, Barry

 

03-19-2009