In looking ahead to my tour this coming October, I’m taking a look back on last year’s visit to this amazing birding road. We are lucky to stay at Wayqecha […]
This coming October I’ll be doing my annual Manu Tour, my third visit to this megadiversity hotspot in Peru. I have no doubt that I’ll be seeing some new things […]
I’ve written about Brazil’s Cristalino Jungle Lodge before here, and I’ll be writing about it some more. I just love this place. The news this time is that I’ll be […]
Our final day of the week-long tour of Mexico’s Lacandon Rain Forest and the Maya Ruins. We had a relaxed morning at our Palenque hotel. The birding from the open-air […]
Palenque is perhaps the most famous of Mexico’s Maya ruins – at least for birders, thanks to its being surrounded by tropical rain forest. We used to do a tour […]
We’re actually quite fortunate that most of the enchanting Maya ruins are still surrounded by good, birdable habitat. Bonampak and Yaxchilán in the Lacandon Region of eastern Chiapas are among […]
Here are some photos from our third day of birding in eastern Chiapas, Mexico on the tour I led here in mid-February this year. We had all morning to bird […]
This was only our second day in Chiapas, but the morning’s boat ride up the Rio Tzendales was to be voted the tour’s favorite outing by the group. Out at […]
There’s something simply enchanting about birding amidst the ruins of past civilizations. Just don’t tell me too much about the history. Some people just find that it spoils the beauty […]
As I promised, here is just one last post from my WINGS tour this past November – our tour’s extension to one island we didn’t visit during the regular one-week […]
What, more photos from the Galapagos? Well, in an 8-day tour in a place so loaded with photogenic subjects, there’s much to share. I’ve actually whittled down these blogs to […]
You never know what you’ll find just poking along. The bulk of our morning of Day 5 in the Galapagos was a delightful walk out the lava “bench” inland from […]
A day of birding and snorkeling the coldest, richest waters in the Galapagos. I’ve been slowly posting photos from the WINGS Galapagos cruise aboard the Integrity this past November to […]
Christmas Red and Green The colors red and green represent Christmas probably from traditions of using sprigs of evergreen trees and red berries to decorate – holly comes to mind. […]
