Mañanas con Café y RelajaZIHón

Ardillas? You’ve got nothing.

An acquaintance has a lovely, huge, palapa-covered dining area with an adjoining food preparation area.

One evening they had just laid out the fabric runner, placemats, plates, bowls, flatware, etc. on the dining table.

It turns out that iguanas can find a palapa to be a desirable location. They don’t even have to go somewhere else to poop, they can just drop it from six or eight metres onto whatever is below, including a fully-laid dining table.

From what I heard, the copious amount of fibre in their diets can make for loose stools that can spread like a water balloon dropped from a similar height.

Ardillas? You’ve got nothing.

As an aside, a relative visited their son who was working in Africa. There was a population of storks. They said they didn’t know whether the storks delivered babies, but they learned the storks “delivered” something else.

In the evenings they would roost on street lamps. People soon learned to not walk directly under street lamps.

While I normally buy my coffee at Café Caracol I never went upstairs until today. It is a lovely spot with great coffee and nice views but there were some rather inquisitive ardillas running around on the balcony rails and trees. Cute but apparently they do urinate on the tables. I had not seen them here in a few years. I use to see them on Andador del Pescador before they lost some of their trees.

Ha! I see them outside my window during much of the day. Some people give them pan dulce to eat, making them fat without the nutrients they actually need, so of course they now bring the entire clan for the daily feast. They've mostly lost their fear of humans, which is probably not a good thing for their survivability. But I'm just glad there are still some wild living creatures around. Our local bat population seems to have taken a hard hit. Same with insects. But the condos continue sprouting on our soon-to-be-treeless hillsides.