Don't Look Back in Anger - Oasis to Haiti - 2013

 Not unusual at this time of year as there was little to show for our efforts on the day, and still totally reliant on Shanks's Pony, but not wishing to disappoint our valued audience we plucked a few snaps from the archive to warm a chilly Sunday.

The dangers associated with the western end of the Caribbean Island of Hispaniola, namely Haiti, are well documented so there had to be a plan B! This, on landing in Port au Prince was to take a peak around the airport exit, get a feel for the place and then seek advice from within. It certainly seemed civiliased enough despite the squaller but the tall lean young man in the tailoerd suit in the foyer would know more about that. Summoning the local pastor

Ernso Jean Louis 

and also guesthouse owner, the most poweful man on the island outside of the government, things became much more relxed as he drove me through the bedraggled capital city of Port-au-Prince

and the ruins of the

CATHEDRAL

all ravaged by a number of earthquakes,

which didn't seem to have touched the

EUCALYPTUS GUEST HOUSE
but after that intro this now becomes focused on the
WILDLIFE
in the garden and adjoining woodland.

HOODED WARBLER

GREEN HERON

BUTTERFLY?

BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLER

SHEPHERDs

AMERICAN KESTREL

VERDIN HUMMINGBIRD
the second smallest bird in the world after
Bee Humingbird an 'endemic' of Cuba!

CHARCOAL BURNER

COMMON YELLOWTHROAT

another
BUTTERFLY

PALMCHAT

A kind word to these local children, "more birds - more tourists, more tourists - more money, more money - better lifestyle"??

OVENBIRD

PARULA WARBLER

 A MOTH
(in one of our traps next please)

HISPANIOLA WOODPECKER

BLACK and WHITE WARBLER

DINING in the DARK

Good Food, Great Company and Decent Beer.