Such nice boys
2.1.07
Feeling much better today so we decided to investigate the tree at the back of Carloss aunts house. Vero was armed and began hacking away at everything! It took us a lot longer than expected to find the path and after 20 mins of de ticking we headed to the field. After 3 hours and no sign of a toucan we headed to the house. I did a bit of a girlie moment after discovering a tick on the inside of my ear and then the thunder and lightening started. 6 Hours later it had stopped so we donned waterproofs and headed back to the field. 20mins later one just appeared one minute not there and the next there. The other one appeared from a completly new direction and not the usual way at all. One was about half way up the tree and the other in the usual look out spot. Trying to get them facing the same way to compare beak size was easier said than done. Eventually getting a decent shot ( photowise me & a catapult would be very very bad) of both of them at the same sort of angle and zoom rate there was no difference in size. So we had 2 males hanging round together which would explain why we couldnt establish a pattern of behaviour for them. At which point one flew over us and the other went bathing in another tree. I felt quite pleased with myself for solving that mystery!! 30 mins later and it started raining again so we went to see C&S only to discover half of their advacado trees had come down in the storm earlier. Also the phone lines were down so no internet so no reconfirming flight plans etc. The storm carried on well into the early hours almost reflecting my mood of panicking a lot..