A week or two ago, Ferípula from Argentina emailed me to say she enjoyed the posting about the turtles – especially the turtle going to church on Sunday. She has since added a link to the Colvin Run Habitat on her blog. Many thanks for her compliment of calling the Habitat - un bello lugar – a wonderful place.
Ferípula’s blog (which documents that she is a fan of Simon & Garfunkel – my favorite remains Los Sonidos de Silencio) is written in Spanish, which will be a challenge for those of you, like me, who are limited to English. But, the photos that she posts are great and humorous. And, Ferípula has provided a link to a multi-lingual translation (is the Internet great or what). Please visit her blog at http://deferipula.blogspot.com/ - if for no other reason than to become another dot on her world map of visitors! By the way, the October 23 cartoon caption reads “speak to me, Jimmy.”
Also, her October 12 post shows a bird chick – which if I understand correctly is an agapornis – a love bird in the parrot family. While we have wild canaries in the Habitat, we have no parrots. But, we do have parrots here in the United States. Monk parrots escaped from a shipment coming from South America back in the 1960s. The result is a growing community of monk parrots in Florida and on Long Island.
Which leads me to Colvin Run Habitat friends Mike and Kay T. Here are photos that I took in their Tampa, Florida, backyard. These monk parrots eat sunflower seeds (an apparent universal favorite of birds) at their backyard feeder. Clearly, these are birds that we will never see at Colvin Run.
Parrots in North and South American. ¡Esto es un pequeño mundo! It is a small world!
Last week, I talked about the Monk Parrots that I photographed when visiting Habitat friends Mike and Kay T. These friends have a backyard that borders a lake in Tampa, Florida, and has many water fowl, hawks, eagles, and a wide variety of small mammals and reptiles. In addition to the monk parrots, I managed to get photos of these Muscovy ducks and this Tri-colored or Louisiana Egret. These, like the parrots, have never been observed in the Habitat.
I would like to take credit for stalking this egret to get closer. The reality is that I took the first photo and then looked down to adjust the camera. When I looked up, the egret was right in front of me. This was the first egret that I had photographed outside of the Colvin Run Habitat.
