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| Antillean Mango posing for the kids. |
Last year I taught in a small village that sits away from any roads and is a 20 minute walk from my house.
I don’t know if any foreigners pass through except to go to a nearby
cave. I forget how we fell into teaching
in the yard of Goyo, the man who owns the cave (JeanJean always mentions that
he owns some of the cave too!), but last year Louiders and I went to his house
weekly to give one hour-long ecology lessons to the kids. We recently began lessons again, and I
decided to do something that seemed likely to be chaotic – take the random
assortment of 30 kids, aged 2 to 18(?) years old, birding! We had been taking the orderly elementary
school classes at UCC out birding, so had some practice (see this post). Birding at three in the afternoon also seemed
risky, but we tried it anyway with great success. The children shared the seven binoculars
(thanks to everyone who donated them!). We didn’t see many birds, but a hummingbird
hung out with us long enough for us to see its curved beak indicating it was an
Antillean mango, and black stripe indicating it was an immature male. These pictures show the kids having fun!
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| Showing the little one how to use binoculars. The 2-holer in the background is what you think it is! |
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| Stripe showing that this is a young male Antillean Mango. |
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