[Birdtalk] Tropical birding

[Connie McManus]

Merrill,
Interesting report.  Thanks.  While you are in Belize - steaming and
sweating your armpits out - we enjoyed a beautiful winter day of clear
skies, lots of snow and temps hovering zero.  AHHHH!  Just my kind of
weather!!  *g*

Connie McManus
Beautiful Cache Valley Ut
where it is winter --- AND WE LIKE IT!!

On Jan 1, 2008 2:11 PM, Merrill Webb <merrill_webb at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Birders,
> Happy New Year from Chan Chich, Belize.  I have always
> wondered what it would be like to take part in a CBC
> without having to bundle up from the cold.  Well,
> yesterday I found out.  Actually it was very warm and
> humid.  And we were interrupted by a two hour rain
> storm, but we were still able to total 74 species in
> our assigned area.  The total Gallon Jug count was
> more than 200 species.  And the amazing thing was,
> none of the birds we saw have occurred on any of the
> Provo, Utah CBC's.  None!  Some of the more
> interesting birds were saw were White Hawk, Ocellated
> Turkey, various trogons and parrots, woodcreepers, and
> five different woodpeckers.
>     Started out the new year with 42 species, one of
> them Laughing Falcon, with most of them around Gallon
> Jug. And we still have night birding to go.  Will
> probably post the birds when I get home the latter
> part of the week.
>     Hate to tell you this, but it is really nice and
> warm here.  Howler and Spider Monkeys are very common.
> Chan Chich is a very comfortable place to spend the
> first day of the new year.  Make it a good one.
> Merrill Webb
>
>
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Connie McManus
Nibley, Cache County, Utah
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