The Thin Line Between Love and Haiti - Part III

By this time in our 10 day stay on the Island of Hispaniola, but more particularly Haiti, we had got to know the previously introduced U.S. Citizen

Brandon (second left)  very well, and his desperate struggle to bring an Air Ambulance to the outskirts of the city.

The drive to the site had been yet another insight to the impoverished

before clapping eyes on this tract of land already fashioned into a circle

and the

village life

in their

Fight for Survival

with some hints of

OVENBIRD
wildlife in this arrid setting

and construction in parts

well underway.

HISPANIOLA WOODPECKER 

and another

LIZARD

and maybe just the early signs of a 'future' for these youngsters and even a

WEDDING
and maybe a little hasty

when assigning

BROAD-BILLLED TODY

as
Bird of the Day before finding an

ASHY-FACED OWL
early evening in the grounds of the
Eucalyptus Guest House.

WET - WET - WET

 Bears no relation to either Marti Pellow or for that matter Love is all Around but more to the current inclement (wet) weather conditions predicted for Sat, Sun and Mon. Not even having left the sactuary of the homestead on the first of those and power issues still prevailing, while the going was occassionally good we decided to wrap up the last 2 episodes of the Haiti exposé. Again on Ernso's recomendation and assurance of being perfectly safe we wandered, in the first instance through his own private tract of

jungle, a major scarcity across the whole of the country' before finding first of all a

BLACK and WHITE WARBLER

follwed by the local

CHARCOAL BURNER
plying his trade and what we would both covert, here in UK, along with the bird above, and refer to as Yank Mega's!

NORTHERN PARULA (WARBLER)
before encountering those who

May Not Wish Them Well.
We did try the suggestion of "more birds, more tourists and maybe a better way of life" but only these 3 Bonny Lads would know if that came to pass??

SUGARCANE

and that recently cropped and

BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLER
before reaching our destination

"hope there's a bus back"

Cane Again the Main Ingredient

BUTTERFLY?

PRODUCTION

Maybe Not in Strict Order

MASH
into which I was allowed to immerse my

HAND
which was the nearest I got to it, not even a 'sip' so could only conclude they must have had MATELOTs

there before?

"Roll Out the Barrels"

A short wander outside where was found the tented
Worker's Village

along with the communal nesting site of the most welcome

Country / Regional Endemic

PALMCHAT

another

BUTTERFLY

and this
LIZARD
before heading back inside for the final process

BOTTLING

LABELING
and

PACKAGING
and getting late we were also afforded a

lift back to the

EUCALYPTUS GUEST HOUSE
(The Final Countdown - Europe) 

tomorrow????

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jK-NcRmVcw

has to be among the Finest Pop Songs ever written / Performed, and what about that
Guitar Break!!

P.S. we by and large dodge any rain yesterday!!

The Twitch Continued

 APOLOGIES FOR THE LATE APPEARANCE OF TODAY'S POST WITH LAST NIGHT'S 'POWER OUT' HAVING ONLY JUST BEEN RESOLVED - Brrreeeeerrrrrr!

Heading north and not a vehicle on the road, we reached the main gates to find, standing before us this

AIRBUS

taxiing for take off to what is said to be either of 2 destinations,
New York or Hong Kong.

GREAT TIT

MISTLE THRUSH

WREN
and the first of 2 Mammals for the day

ROE DEER
only a single

LITTLE GREBE

REDWING
and disappearing with most of the Wildfowl the Moors floodplain held but

c5

not particularly obliging

EGYPTIAN GEESE
and acouple of

CANADA GEESE

Then and still only the second Mammal recorded in 2022
GREY SQUIRREL
and a male

BULLFINCH
with the final word going to the now well established

GUINEA FOWL