birds of paradise

May 4th

Every bird down here is exotic as far as I am concerned! I do not recognize even one bird. There are huge flocks of red-breasted parrots that make a huge raucous about sunset and sunrise. They never seem to fly alone, there are always at least four of them together and they chatter to one another as they fly. They seem to like what looks like a member of the gravillia family, which has big stalk like blossoms on it, and they drink the sap.

There are also some huge black and white pelicans that live down by the harbor. They are bigger than the ones we see down in Baja. The ones I saw the other day were quite big, their heads came up to my breast and they are quite tame. They hang around where the fishermen come in and clean their fish, which accounts for the fact they are so tame.