Mar 31 2009
I scheduled this post to pop during my net-absence while I was running around the forests and waterways at Sacha Lodge over the weekend, but somehow I managed to bungle it. Here it is as I’m heading home. I expected the birds in Ecuador to be amazing, but the moths have been an unanticipated treat. I’ll have more [...]
Mar 26 2009
Andean Condor soaring into the clouds below Papallacta Pass, March 25, 2009
Mar 21 2009
If all goes according to schedule, I’ll be somewhere high on Papallacta Pass this morning and far away from the internet. But I’ll be thinking of you and hoping you have a great birthday. Sorry you’re not here with me, but let’s start planning a return trip right away, OK? All my love, Jeff
Mar 19 2009
No hope of even beginning to catch up on Ecuador stuff, but I thought I’d share some of an incredible hour and a half we spent yesterday afternoon. It was after lunch, in the cloud forest near Mindo, Ecuador. The shot below is reasonably representative of the habitat. We turned off the highway into the [...]
Mar 18 2009
From March 10-15, I had the rare pleasure of spending most of five days in the lovely cloud forest at Cabanas San Isidro, tucked into the east slope of the Ecuadorian Andes at about 2200 meters. I have very little time to share any of the many wonderful things I got to see and do [...]
Mar 09 2009
Liz & I had a great weekend in southern Ohio, where I was a speaker at the 6th annual Adams County Amish Bird Symposium. The venue is certainly unusual–a spacious barn with power provided by a diesel generator. The shot above was taken during the lunch break. The audience was amazing–energetic and attentive during a [...]
Mar 06 2009
Last night, I had the pleasure of speaking to the Delaware Valley Ornithological Club in Philadelphia. DVOC meets in pretty sweet digs: the Academy of Natural Sciences, especially when they are able to use the main auditorium, which they were last night. I gave my presentation on Kingfishers & their Allies, which seemed to go [...]
Mar 02 2009
Take a look at the landscape below. What can you tell me about the environment depicted? It’s a desert, or at least a dry habitat, right? The plain in the foreground, anyhow–who knows what the climate is like in the mountains? But the tall, spiky yucca plants at front right tell you, just as [...]
