Haiti - Penultimate Chapter

To get the measure of the man who is

Ernso Jean Louis

you need only to have taken a look around you, but there was much more to this

than first met the eye. Yes, among all the hardship and degradation there was the

super Guest House and a suite of Offices but outside of that lay a huge indicator!

 En-route from Santo Domingo the capital of The Dominican Republic to

Port-au-Prince

 the pilot drew our attentinon to the sudden and dramatic change to the

 vegetation below.

Almost devoid of any greenery at all the trees had all been felled years ago for charcole,

but returning to Ernso's his 50 or so acres we sill in tact!

What a bonus then when it came to Wildlifing.

He assured me of the safety aspect of the whole thing, 

and woe betide he who crossed Ernso's guests!

 Justice certainly wasn't give regards taking images of this pristine area but my

 first encounter was with these 3

Little Hunters

and again who could point a finger at them wanting to fill their bellies?

Not only was it alive with mostly Birds but was also the path which led to the

 Rum Distillery

 Outside of the large Security Gates worked one of the last

 CHARCOAL BURNERS

with his latest batch still smoldering.

 SUGARCANE

CROP ROTATION

Think it might be best here to mix the

Birds with the Booze!

the diurnal and endemic

ASHY-FACED OWL

 Not surprisingly a Lone Tourist on the Day 

but here was my guide to lead me.

BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLER

RAW MATERIALS

 HOODED WARBLER

the species that once won me an evening dinner all expences paid

(but that's quite another story)

BUTTERFLY (unknown)

 From here I know little

HISPANIOLA LIZARD CUCKOO

 or nothing of the process

COMMON GROUND DOVE

 save to say there was seemingly lots of it

NORTHERN PARULA

 in vats and other large containers

TROPICAL PARULA

They were not very forthcoming with giving a swig

 as with hand on heart it can be told not a drop passed my lips

(not for the want of trying)

The closest to a taste was being allowed to dip my hand into the 

Fermenting Liquor

With all that stashed in there, never mind

 Roll Out the Barrels

 Thought this Gent was Tapeing Up my Carryout

 Bottleing

 Capsuals

 and

 PACKAGING

Without 'hick' so much as a snifter it was nonetheless a

 Most Enjoyable Morning

Thanks to One and All!

Thorn in My Side - Eurythmics

Following suit with the proverbial Bus once one
THORN
turns up soon after so does another.

 PURPLE THORN
and none less welcome to the Year List as was our first

 BRINDLED BEAUTY
but making up the trio 
"we don't do Micros" especially the more difficult

 PLUME MOTHS
(right outside of our ken but no less interesting)
Out in the wider world it quickly turned into a

 BUZZARD

 fest
with this obliging individual followed in quick succession by c2 more.
While on the subject of quick, we were attracted to the posturing of this pair of bonny birds,

 Look Out He's Behind You

 Too Late!

 It isn't very often yoy see such action, and that's only speaking for myself.

 a bit of a spruce up

The look of 
PHEASANT SATISFACTION

 All to often given short shrift these are extremely smart birds!

 but some are never
SATISFIED!

BLACK ANT's NEST

 Presumed the same skein of 4 
GREYLAG GEESE
as seen last week? and a first

 BROWN-LIPPED SNAIL
was followed by the second

BUZZARD

 as the third escaped the Canon.

 The bread and other scrapes are put out for anything 'wild' which happens along

 so we don't want to discriminate, but it seemed a little unusual to attract a

 ROOK

to bread.
Don't remember ever seeing this before, so maybe need to get out more?