bird watching in Bonaire part 2

OK, get ready to faint, but I actually signed up for DSL.

We had dial-up connection. It was so bloody slow that it kept jamming. It took close to a half an hour to download one stinking photo that I couldn't stand it anymore.

When we first moved to this area we tried the adelphi high speed network on their trial "special". After 3 months of their "special", the price jumped to a ridiculous level plus we still had problems connecting, so we ended that. Adelphi is no longer in business. Comcast and verizon are the only choices.

Anyways, here are some photos that "yours truly" took in while bird watching in Bonaire.

a) This first photo is of a caribbean parakeet, Aratinga pertinax. These parakeets are basically conures similar to the 'wild parrots of Telegraph hill". This picture was taken on a scrub tree near Rincon. If you look in the upper left part of the picture you can see a "feathered mass". That is picture of a caribbean parakeet feeding her fledgling! These parakeets are thriving!

b) This is the common bananaquit, Coereba flaveola . You can hear them making their "twizz twizzz" sound.

c) This is a tricolored heron, Egretta tricolor. He was fishing in the salt panns.

d) This is a yellow oriole, Icterus nigrogularis

Pretty bird!

e) This is a bare-eyed pigeon, Columba corensis. This is one of my favorites. He would sit in the tree and make this "whoooo whooo" sound.

f) Caribbean parakeets

g) These are caribbean flamingoes, Phoenicopterus ruber. You see them on a regular basis looking for tiny shrimps at the salt panns.

h) This is a brown pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis.