Back from a little over a week in Colorado. Lots of things to post about, but still working through photos and stuff so it’ll be a little while before I get things up. In the meantime, here’s a photo that I almost deleted straight off the camera. What was I taking?
(As I said, I took very few pictures and none from today are worth posting) Sunday 6/27: Today was the second day of field trips. After checking out of the hotel, I sat around in the main hotel’s parking lot for a while trying to get a ride (Civic isn’t great on dirt roads and [...]
Finally getting around to posting this. Appears I took very few photos. Friday 6/25: Today was one of the field trip days. After heading to the main hotel early and a bit of sitting around, I ended up in a car with Dan and Wally heading for the Machias River. We made a quick stop [...]
Flights: Southwest, came to $100 roundtrip. Car: Budget, Chevy Cobalt. Not what I really wanted but it was acceptable. Less tinny than I remember at least. Hotels: just grabbed whatever I could find, all were acceptable without being anything extra. All had internet access so I was able to stay on top of things. List [...]
From December 2nd to 6th, I spent some time poking around the Mid-Atlantic. Not going to do an extended trip report, but here’s a brief overview. Thursday 12/2: Early flight from Boston to Baltimore (Southwest). Nothing to it, 1 interesting raptor on the runway at Logan. Picked up the car and headed for New Jersey, [...]
As promised, here’s the first day of my trip to Maine for the Dragonfly Society of the Americas annual meeting. Thursday 6/24: The meeting was scheduled to begin with a late afternoon social thing. Since it’s about 5 hours to Orono, I decided to head up early and make a couple birding stops along the [...]
Flights were on American (several airlines were all at the same rate, picked based on time and connecting city) and we had no real issues. Car rental was through Hertz. Mazda 3, which was much less comfortable than the 6 I had last year. We’re pretty sure we got screwed a bit on the cost [...]
February 13 Today was a travel day as we headed back to San Antonio. Of course, with 2 very good birds on the way, it was also a good birding day. We left Rockport and started towards Beeville. On the way, we found a couple Sandhill Cranes in a field and had an Avocet and [...]
February 12 Today started with a trip to Aransas NWR. On the way, I noticed that the gas tank was a bit low (presumably from all the idling in traffic yesterday) but figured we were still fine. The road to Aransas is pretty long and there’s absolutely nothing on the way, but we got there [...]
Feb 11 Today, we headed to Laguna Atascosa. It was drizzly to rainy when we arrived and the staff were almost surprised that anyone showed up. Luckily it stopped enough to walk the trails near the visitor’s center for a few minutes. We didn’t see too much (unfortunately the Blue Bunting didn’t show up until [...]