At least one good thing about leaving is you can always come back…
It's been four amazing months here on Montserrat for me and my fellow volunteer Blanca. The adventures have been countless and could possibly only be outnumbered by the good laughs. We have spent many...
On belly swabbing duty!
I may be a little fella, but my heart is as big as Texas! If you've been to Montserrat, you know there is a concert going on in the trees from dusk till dawn....
A Forest Feast
After a few weeks trying to organize the event, it finally happened!!! Last Saturday the Mountain Chicken team went to the forest. That is no news, I know. But this time there was a...
Baby frogs in Dominica!!
Dominica is often called nature isle and is an emerald jewel in the Caribbean Sea. It has 60% of its forests remaining and the most intact reptile...
We Found That Girl
The frogs released in January have been really shy since Blanca and I arrived. When going out to survey other areas for surviving wild mountain chicken we've been welcomed by the calling of handsome...
Some trees on Montserrat have grown ears.
If a Mountain Chicken calls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it still make a sound?
One of our main tools for finding surviving frogs, both released and native...
Summer School Mountain Chicken Day
Yay, field day!!! Fourteen kids from the summer school came with us on an awesome trip to the forest to learn more about the mountain chicken project. The weather was at its best behaviour...
Turtle watching
Not all that crawls on Montserrat is a mountain chicken... On a Friday night we went down to Woodlands Beach to watch the locals lay their eggs. The local turtles that is. There are...
The road to stardom
In August we were visited by camera technician Ninon Hives. She studied for a master on director of wildlife documentary at the university of Poitiers, France, and chose to do a documentary for the...
Fresh blood for the mosquitoes has arrived!
Yes!! The new volunteers are here! Full of energy and excitement, they are easily recognized by their wide eyes and pale skin (well, as this is written they have already turned from ghostly European...