The 'relaxing' of lockdown really just meant that the mice were allowed to get off their wheels and walk around the neighbourhood for a 3 hour period. If you haven't read Nineteen Eighty Four, then you have no concept of the inference - if you have, then I think you are well to be concerned. Musings aside, the garden list has grown with some unusual sightings recently including a Bokmakierie and even a young Martial Eagle this afternoon.
To keep sane, one's mind needs to dream a little - and there are few places on the globe where dreaming about seeing a lot of birds can be satisfied quite like Ecuador. It can be an overwhelming destination, with hundreds of new species to see in just a matter of days - so take your time! With a number of feeders and photo blinds, their is plenty of scope to take your time and enjoy the varied species and their behaviour. Toucans and their smaller cousins, the Aracaris never fail to make an entrance at a fruit feeder - often bossing proceedings with a simple swoosh of their bill.
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| Pale-mandibled Aracari. Milpe, Ecuador |
