Walking through Green Pastures is my exercise hopefully 3 times a week. It is relaxing, educational and inspiring. To create and maintain a Nature Reserve in NE Brazil is a challenge and a great pleasure.
This week our infra-red camera has registered good 30 second videos of South American Racoons, Limpkins, Rufescent Tiger-Herons and Roadside Hawks. The interesting thing was to go to the spot in the stream where the Racoon was filmed eating a toad and find left in the water the poisonous toad's skin which he had peeled off with his claws before eating - and all in the dark!
Today a Crane Hawk was flying overhead as I walked and calling loudly. I bumped straight into a Stripe-backed Antbird in its usual part of the Reserve and it pursued in calling out loudly too as it likes to do. It is interesting how we know where a lot of species always hang out. I walked through some dense undergrowth and wild guinea pigs were scampering in all directions as were a number of giant Teju lizards.
Every time I go to Green Pastures something is different. Some flowers finish flowering and others start. Different insects may be in action and all types of fauna are on the move. God's creation is absolutely amazing!
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