As we arrived to North Seymour this morning, we could see frigates gliding along the coastline, some males frigates with a partially inflated red pouch passed by, followed by juveniles and female. After landing, a few feet into the walk we found a land iguana under a Cordia lutea tree, and just next to it on another Muyuyo shrub two endemic swallow tailed gulls, sitting on the ground on top of an accumulation of pebbles that probably is their nest.
This was just the prelude of things to come today!
Blue footed boobies waited for us in the middle of the trail, a male stopped and pointed the bill upward to be seen by a female that was flying right on top of him, she understood his move and landed right next to his side, as she approached him, he started doing it’s whistling… definitively courting, it is the time of the year. Land iguanas waited in the shade of the Opuntia cacti, highly likely hoping that the fruits of the pads will fall on top of them. The cacti here are their only source of water. One walked in front of us and decided to rest under the cactus next to the trail, as the morning got hotter even the reptiles looked like any shade or breeze would be a good place to rest.
All along the inner part of the trail, we found the male frigate birds with its pouches inflated, all of then making different sounds and moving their wings as the females flew above. Just one of them within the group has gotten a beautiful female that was carefully inspecting the place where the male has decided to make the nest.
Rabida Island in the afternoon was the perfect place to watch the sun go down, as we took a walk that greatly surprised us with a greater flamingo that was pretty satisfied, it actually was looking at us with the same kind of interest we had about him!
