Friday, November 19, 2010

Gone birding!


Yep - we are packed and pretty much ready to go on our latest trip.  We are joining Tropical Birding for an Andes Introtour on the northwest slope of said mountain range in Ecuador.  We'll be staying at the 'built, owned and run by birders' Tandayapa Bird Lodge and visiting some amazing locations like Yanacocha, the Mindo Cloudfores Preserve in Milpe, Rio Salanche, and Refugio Paz de Aves - home of Maria the Giant Antpitta who (often) responds to the sound of Angel Paz calling her by name and feeding her worms (as well as other antpittas and a Cock-of-the-Rock lek.)  I love the tropics and cannot begin to relate how excited I am for this trip.

All I can say is, be ready for a lot of posts and photos when I return!

5 comments:

Hilke Breder said...

Happy birding, Christopher! Looking forward to your reports.

Springman said...

Wonderful photography!
You would be welcome to contribute and help to begin a new endevour called "World Bird Wednesday" a chance for bird photographers to share and spread word of their blogs to others!
Visit http://pineriverreview.blogspot.com/ and check it out!
Springman!

dAwN said...

Hope your having the time of your life..looking forward to photos of your trip.

Cindy said...

Hope you are having a great trip. Look so forward to visiting the area vicariously through your pictures. The pictures of your last trip were wonderful.

Anonymous said...

Oh, so jealous! have a great time and I can't wait to hear about your trip!

Laura