The island is nearly full! Well, all the trees are nearly full. The volume around the island has definitely picked up and there is squawking and fighting for leaves at every corner. Wow, how lucky we feel every day to be able to witness such a miracle of nature on our doorsteps. How perfectly timed nature is with the rain diminishing causing the leaves to fall; and the wind which has started to blow to help the leaves to fall for the Noddy’s to use for building nests in the gaps left by the fallen leaves; and the monsoon winds up welling the nutrients bringing in fish for the hundreds of thousands of nesting marine birds to eat! The awesomeness of of the seabird nesting season on Cousine is hard to describe without seeing it with your own two eyes. How the Lesser Noddy’s fly from thousands of miles away and have the energy to find a mate and pick up leaves (sometimes dipping them in the sea) to make a carefully placed nest amongst hundreds of others, to the Shearwaters who wail baby cries and ghost calls at night and dive bomb when landing after elegantly skimming the ocean surface for hours hunting for fish, to the Sooty Terns who silently started a small breeding colony on the opposite side of the island to their original one after it was over-exploited decades ago. Cousine is a haven for these birds and probably at any point during the nesting season, houses up to 300 000 birds!  Listen to the Lesser Noddy from Sounds of Seychelles CD:  47 Track 47