While on a walk down Bullet Tree Road to see some birds on Wednesday, a car drove by us, then reversed and made us weary. Turns out, the family who found the Vireo (Yellow-green?) and brought it to CASA last Wednesday, found two more. We're fairly certain that they're the siblings to the initial Vireo. The woman has dogs and was wary of renesting. One is in good health and the other... had four Botfly larvae. Yum! And also sick / creepy. They were located in his head, chin, and in his left nare. Those were easily extracted by squeezing and pulling with tweezers. The fourth was located on the abdomen but it had been closed off so it couldn't be easily removed. Yesterday, I gave him some pain medications and proceeded to use a scalpel to remove the dead larvae. It was a little crazy; luckily it was only subcutaneous so it was fairly easy to remove and not too horribly painful. The kid took it like a champ and is doing well so far.
On Sunday, we released the Roadside Hawk that had been raised by somebody in Orange Walk in the morning. We had a picnic on the lawn in honor of the fourth with veggie burgers, baked beans, and watermelon, as well as various Belizeans fruits. It was too bad we didn't have any fireworks.
We've acquired a wandering intern. He arrived on Monday. He's pretty young but eager and enthusiastic and from England. I've met so many different nationalities since I've been here.
Alison's mom left on Monday. Time goes by way too fast here. A few more days and I'll have been here for 6 months. An offer was made to stay for another year but it's not realistic to stay as a volunteer... life and bills and my health call.
Hopefully these Vireos will start eating on their own very soon so that Alison and I can actually go out during the day and do some fun things. And now, it's time for breakfast.
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