The Birds

 Due to our location and the fact that our property actually includes some jungle within the walls, there is a wide variety of wildlife.  We don't have a picture of every animal or bird that is here but we wanted to show you some pictures of at least a few. Since I come from a Bird-watching family and have a bird as my name-sake it's fitting to give the birds first priority.  :)
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I think there might be hundreds of these birds in or near our property here.  They mostly avoid people getting to close to them.  However, I did notice that when they mow the lawns here that bunches of these birds follow the lawn mowers looking for bugs to eat.  They get surprisingly close to the mowers and when they are so distracted looking for bugs you can get quite close to them.

I think it is called a Cattle Egret

Sorry these aren't great pictures but it's a neat bird so I'm including them:

There are also a large amount of what I think are hawks:

In the evening these hawks start flying around everywhere and they seem to love this tree:

        This picture was taken near twilight so it's hard to see all the birds, but if you click on it, you will see how many there are.

One evening while we were at the pool the hawks were hunting lizards in the grass and we got really close to a couple when they swooped down.

Besides these birds there are several other interesting varieties that I haven't been able to photograph yet.  We have seen what I thought was a pelican, a Pied Crow that has a white vest and looks pretty cool and different types of swallows.  There are thousands that start darting around at night.  One evening I was walking along the covered walkways, and there were hundreds just flying everywhere. I was actually worried they would fly into me.  The new construction of walkways has left them numerous crooks and crannies to nest in so they have been taking over in some areas.  Just think of all the bugs they eat!!

I was going to do just one post on the birds and animals but I think I'll stop here and save the animals for the next one.  Hope you are all doing well, we miss our friends and family back home!