Jeff Mayers
A flock of scarlet ibises, some with varying colourations, take flight along with egrets at the Caroni Bird Sanctuary last Wednesday. - JEFF K MAYERS
The Caroni Bird Sanctuary tour is a marquee attraction for tourists who visit our shores and while tourism accounts for just about four per cent of the country’s GDP, it employs one in ten people. And it’s been the sector hardest hit by the covid19 pandemic. Business Day visited the Caroni visited the Caroni Bird Sanctuary and spoke to tour owner and operator Lester Nanan about how his business has been coping – and if there is a silver lining for the sanctuary and the industry. Read the story in tomorrow's edition of Business Day, free in your daily Newsday.
WITH so many people forced into their homes by stay-at-home measures implemented to slow the spread of covid19, nature – the land, sea, rivers, flora and fauna – has had a chance to “convalesce” over the last few months in TT.
Even as more and more areas begin to reopen, Newsday’s chief photographer Jeff K Mayers, with help from Nanan's Tours, was able to visit a still-untouched Caroni Bird Sanctuary last Wednesday to capture these images of life at the Caroni Swamp for our readers.
For previous instalments of Newsday's "untouched" series, please visit the links below:
• Newsday Chief Photographer Jeff K Mayers visited Manzanilla Beach on April 15
A little blue heron walks alone, minding its own business along the bank of the Caroni River at the Caroni Bird Sanctuary last Wednesday. - JEFF K MAYERS
A tropical screech owl gives Jeff K Mayers the "side-eye" as he takes its picture at the Caroni Bird Sanctuary last Wednesday. - JEFF K MAYERS
A masked cardinal, which looks like it would be quite at home in a certain video game, seems very angry, probably because its meal was interrupted, at Jeff K Mayers' "intrusion" into the Caroni Bird Sanctuary last Wednesday. It clearly prefers an untouched sanctuary. - JEFF K MAYERS
A group of scarlet ibises go about their business at the Caroni Bird Sanctuary last Wednesday. - Jeff K. Mayers
One can only guess what secrets wait to be discovered down this watery trail in the Caroni Swamp at the Caroni Bird Sanctuary. - JEFF K MAYERS
A little island populated by scarlet ibis sits in the Caroni River at the Caroni Bird Sanctuary. - Jeff K. Mayers
A mask cardinal has it's dinner at the Caroni Bird Sanctuary last Wednesday. - JEFF K MAYERS
Scarlet Ibises in flight with the Northern Range in the distance at the Caroni Bird Sanctuary last Wednesday. - Jeff K. Mayers
A mangrove shrub lifts roots above the waters of the Caroni Swamp as if lifting a skirt at the Caroni Bird Sanctuary last Wednesday. - JEFF K MAYERS
Oysters cling to the roots of mangrove shrub in the Caroni Swamp at the Caroni Bird Sanctuary last Wednesday. - JEFF K MAYERS
A mangrove boa or tree snake peers curiously at the camera as its picture is taken at the Caroni Bird Sanctuary last Wednesday. - JEFF K MAYERS
A group of majestic mangroves with their trademark roots standing high above the waters of the Caroni Swamp at the Caroni Bird Sanctuary. - JEFF K MAYERS
Flamingoes, in the water, and scarlet ibises, in the trees, coexist in the Caroni Swamp at the Caroni Bird Sanctuary last Wednesday. - JEFF K MAYERS
Three flamingoes land among a larger flock of the colourful birds already in the water at the Caroni Bird Sanctuary last Wednesday. - JEFF K MAYERS
Though the sanctuary is still off limits to the general public, garbage dumped elsewhere still found its way to the Caroni Swamp in the Caroni Bird Sanctuary last Wednesday. - JEFF K MAYERS
Though the sanctuary is still off limits to the general public, garbage dumped elsewhere still found its way to the Caroni Swamp in the Caroni Bird Sanctuary last Wednesday. - JEFF K MAYERS
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