Lockdown Day 2

It’s officially quarantine but I like using lockdown, it seems more descriptive as the entire island seems to be shut down. This usually bustling vacation destination has golf carts, walkers, bicycles and motorbikes with a few taxis and construction vehicles mixed in all crowding the streets. Yesterday and today those streets are quite! Only a few patrol officers are out.

Families are staying in their homes and if they do come outside they stay on their porches or balconies. Without the noise of the hustle and bustle I can hear the chatter of among families including parents working with their kids on school work and children and adults singing,

In our yard we have many birds that sing and are busy finding food and building nests. We have a Common Black Hawk which is building a nest of sticks and pine needles. It will break small twiggy branches from the tree to add to it’s nest. Before I realized what it was doing I just thought it was a very clumsy bird! There only seems to be one hawk right now so it will be interesting to see when another shows up.

By the birds mating behavior it definitely seems like spring even though it’s subtropical here and the weather doesn’t vary much other that between a wet and dry season.