I've pretty much concluded that "Craow Dum" is gone.
I haven't seen him for over a month.
It's really quite a shame since he endured the worst winter ever and yet, managed to survive until as of recently. Craow Dum lived for three years residing above the eaves of Sal's pizza. For two of those years, he had an infected foot due to some kind of arcylic threading that wrapped around his foot causing it to swell.
Out of the original crowd I've only seen "JLo", "Galok" and "Busta Move". But even JLo is a new comer as of this year. It is kind of sad not to see the usual "cast of characters" that frequented the beach area. You wonder what happened to them.
Whenever I travel I always check out the general pigeon population that resides in the area.
The pigeons (rock doves) in Barbados were different from the pigeons I've seen. Barbados standard rock doves were larger with longer necks. The most common pigeon-like bird was the eared dove. They hung around the hotel area looking for hand outs. They were actually quite bold similar to our pigeons. They were not classically shy like you would expect of doves.
The little ground dove was shy. They look like eared doves but are darker and smaller.
Another dove/pigeon-like bird that caught my eye was the scaly naped pigeon. It was more of large brown pigeon with an irridescent purple "turtle neck".
Unfortunately, I didn't get to do much bird watching in Barbados because of the crappy weather.
I did, however, spot a flock of five brown throated parakeets pass by as well as cattle egrets and one lesser Antilles hummingbird.
* first photo above is an eared dove (internet photo)
**second photo above is a scaly naped pigeon (internet photo)
We have the first dove out here... they're tiny. The people around here call them turtle doves. We have larger ones that look like morning doves, but I can never be sure if that's really what they are.
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