ABACO PARROT CHICKS FOR 2014, TOP POSTS & A DODO…
The dawn of a New Year shimmers just below the horizon, with all its bright promise for the future. It provides a convenient excuse to peer symbolically into the limestone holes of the remarkable ABACO PARROT to take a peek at some newly hatched eggs and the tiny chicks that will, by next spring, look like the handsome bird at the top of the page…
This website is not overly preoccupied with stats, but I have had a quick look to see which posts were the most popular during 2013. Here, for better or worse (I didn’t make the choices…), are the top dozen, introduced by the cutest chick of the year, a Wilson’s plover calling for its mum…
So! Farewell then 2013. Like the Curate’s egg, you were good in parts – indeed, many parts of you were excellent. Now, like Raphus cucullatus, you will become extinct, leaving remains and memories behind you… Thanks to all loyal followers of this site for sticking with it and its eccentricities (especially the musical digressions). If you wound up here by chance, mistyped g@@gle search or sheer misfortune, cheers… A very Happy New Year to you all!
Photo taken at the American Museum of Natural History – there’s also a dodo skeleton in the Oxford University Museum of natural History
Credits: Parrot nests – Caroline Stahala (the scientist i/c parrots); the rest – RH
ROLLING HARBOUR ABACO 
Fabulous shots!
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Thanks Cindy! 😎
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Happy New Year RH!!
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If I didn’t already say it to you first, then back at you (as they say), Lucy. 😎
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Uncredibe! You rock~
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How kind Cindy – but these days it’s really more rolling than rocking (unless I’m snoozing in my chair…). Rocking is for the chicks!! RH
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That is a very cute chick indeed! Happy New Year RH!
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Great, isn’t it! I’d like to have got a closer shot, but I didn’t want to scare it. A very Happy New Year to you and your energetic family too… may your progress be good in 2014! RH
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Happy New Year and thank you for your beautiful photos of animal life on the island of Abaco. I hope to have more to show to the Italian naturalists. .
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What a wonderful story – thanks RH!
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A very Happy New Year to you. Now we are back in London, we must talk bonefish flies before our next trip in March. I look forward to seeing what the fish and indeed the guides make of your pattern! Either “OK Keet, let’s give it a go” (good) or “Oh Maaaaaaaaan” (bad to very bad, usually heard when I fluff a cast or lose a fish – i.e. pretty often). RH
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