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It was early afternoon when Mike and I arrived at Bosque Estatal de Guanica, the large dry forest reserve on the south coast of PuertoRico. This is the second in a series of posts about Mike and Corey’s self-guided trip to PuertoRico from 14-18 January 2017. ( You can find the first here.
In September of 2017, PuertoRico was hit by two powerful hurricanes: it was grazed by Irma and then clobbered by Maria, a Category 4 storm that cut a devastating swath across the island. Fajardo is in the northeastern corner of PuertoRico and the count area includes parts of El Yunque National Forest.
Though it’s been over a month since Mike and I returned from PuertoRico my blogging about the trip has been sadly lacking. This is the fourth in a series of posts about Mike and Corey’s self-guided trip to PuertoRico from 14-18 January 2017. ( You can find the rest here. What am I talking about?
Here’s hoping that 2017 is a much better year than 2016! That I have trips to PuertoRico, Austria, and the Bahamas planned in the first two months of the year makes me a bit more confident than usual that I can make it again this year. I know I will be doing my best to make it so, especially from a birding perspective.
Corey did not get out birding much this weekend after our trip to PuertoRico last week. But he did manage to carve out a couple of hours on Sunday morning to hit a couple of local parks in Queens where he found his Best Bird of the Weekend, a flyover American Pipit at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park.
On our first full day in PuertoRico (Sunday, 15 January), Mike and I decided to start in the east of the island and work our way west. … This is the first in a series of posts about Mike and Corey’s self-guided trip to PuertoRico from 14-18 January 2017.
Lucky are those, though, who have added new birds to their life list since 2017 began. Corey and I just spent our first day blitzing PuertoRico and pulled some sweet sightings. Anyone who makes the effort will likely find–and fall for–the Puerto Rican Tody , a dazzling member of a charismatic Caribbean genus.
Good or bad, I’m hitting the road this weekend and dragging Corey with me as we blitz through PuertoRico in an effort to vacuum up every endemic on that sunny Caribbean island. No, what really gets me going is traveling somewhere I haven’t been for a while, where even the most mundane species gladdens my eye. Wish us luck.
A fine February visit to Culebra, the little island off the eastern end of PuertoRico, netted me some lifers as did my first ever trip to south Florida in late April. Antillean Crested Hummingbird , 17 February, Culebra, PuertoRico. And here’s really hoping that your 2017 is also full of great birds.
Now, those of you familiar with my tendency to chase birds in New York and knowledgeable of the spate of Great Gray Owls we have had in 2017 might question why it took me to nearly the end of March to make a trip upstate to see one.
territories such as PuertoRico and the U.S. In contrast, one of my lifers in 2017 was an Emperor Goose in the Bay Area. To keep things relatively close to home and reasonably-priced, I have limited myself to birding in the United States, creating my own birding area consisting of all 50 states and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Last year beats were being spotted way beyond their usual habitat with checklists shared from India, PuertoRico and Israel. 13 Jan 2017. 20 Jan 2017. 05 Jan 2017. 01 Jan 2017. 08 Jan 2017. 01 Jan 2017. 05 Jan 2017. 15 Jan 2017. 22 Jan 2017. 07 Jan 2017. 28 Jan 2017.
I have also written about things I did not expect, such as whether to rename certain birds , an issue that I was essentially unaware of when I started in 2017. The devastating hurricanes in 2017 led me to write a post about the post-hurricane recovery of birds in PuertoRico. Virgin Islands.
I have also written about things I did not expect, such as whether to rename certain birds , an issue that I was essentially unaware of when I started in 2017. The devastating hurricanes in 2017 led me to write a post about the post-hurricane recovery of birds in PuertoRico. Virgin Islands.
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