Bonaire has a large population of donkeys that descend from the animals brought by Spanish settlers many years ago. Now they are feral, and you can see them everywhere. In fact, there are so many of them that there is even a donkey sanctuary. But I met this cheerful burrow as it was passing our place of residence.
Bonaire also has lots of feral goats that I saw, but somehow I did not sketch even one. However, a bunch of cats visited our house. One of them had an ear clipped, and based on the fact that all other cats would run away as soon as this gorgeous blackness with whiskers appeared on the fence, I thought that the ear was damaged in some important war. Later, I found out that Bonaire has a program for Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR), and as a result, cats get the ear clip. We observed daily people-watching and bird-catching activities, but for me, the best part was the impression this character left on other cats.
Apart from these two visitors, we were regularly entertained by a small flock of brown-throated parakeets (prikichi in papiamenu) who, in their endemic to Bonaire version, have a very radiant yellow head. My problem with drawing these birds was the fact that I did not bring a bright enough green pencil :)
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