Friday already

Went out with Jason the naturalist to get a handle on trees, plant families, and how birds use trees.   Overwhelmed by all new tree families and species---interesting that birds eat sometimes only flowers and others both flowers and seeds and fruits, and that the trees bloom different times ------The wet season is when most birds nest------Caracara nesting now ---10week old chicks  saw one with scraggly feathers on head------pointed out bananaquit nest ---will return with students to try see bird----He put his scope on toucan this morning ---several students were able to take videos and great shots----------Afternoon Kim and I went back out to Heliconia garden  and Kim spotted a blue parrot hidden in the dense foliage of a smaller tree----She has never birded before and this was a great sighting. The first day she identified a palm tanager, so she is on the way to being a good birder and has the patience for it.  and   Jonathan is great at remembering the larger birds and their calls----  Lovely to just sit this afternoon in the quiet part of the garden for some time with beautiful light hitting some of the trees and the head of the parrot so we would clearly see it  and he was looking intently at us too.    Think of all the other birds that are in all these leafy trees which we can't see.