Well, I finally did return to Estabrook Park this morning, and winter sure is on a break, if it’s not gone for good. There’s still plenty of ice slowly melting in the river and a couple of small patches of snow in the woods where it must have drifted a bit deeper than elsewhere, butContinue reading “February gets blown away…”
Monthly Archives: February 2025
Guatemala wrap-up and recap.
It’s a pretty grey day here in Milwaukee, and I’m feelin’ a bit wiped-out from the trip, so I’m just gonna use a few more trip pictures to tide us over. First, here’s one more look at a great-tailed grackle, this time from the B&B outside Antigua. We saw and heard them at every stop,Continue reading “Guatemala wrap-up and recap.”
Guatemala Day 8, Día de viaje
After a long day of travel, I hope you will be glad to hear that Anne and I arrived home safely at just about quarter after 8 this (Wednesday) evening . We did take one more look before breakfast this morning, and saw some great sights, but I don’t believe we found anyone new. Thus,Continue reading “Guatemala Day 8, Día de viaje”
Guatemala Day 7
It was another beautiful morning in Antigua, Guatemala, and our B&B doesn’t serve breakfast until 8am, so I had 1.5 glorious hours from sunrise till breakfast to look for critters on the grounds. My first find this morning was this elusive blue-and-white mockingbird (Melanotis hypoleucus). This little cutie is a young or female Wilson’s warbler,Continue reading “Guatemala Day 7”
Guatemala Day 6
All spare you the details of what all transpired yesterday, but let’s just say that microbes were involved, and I’m on the road to recovery. Oh, and we drove to Antigua, “the capital of the Captaincy General of Guatemala from 1543 through 1773, and now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.“ This morning, when I gotContinue reading “Guatemala Day 6”
Guatemala Day 4, Día de Lluvia
It started raining overnight, and drops hitting something that banged loudly made me think, in my state of semiconsciousness, that pipes were banging so the heat was coming on. Well, the heat was not coming on, it was still raining at sunrise, and it has rained here all day as far as we know. IContinue reading “Guatemala Day 4, Día de Lluvia”
Guatemala Day 3
It was cool and cloudy at sunrise this morning, but not rainy, here at the Country Delights Hotel, so I got out before breakfast to see who I could see. The great-trailed grackles were already making a racket, but the little zzzzt zzzzt of this gorgeous azure-crowned hummingbird (Saucerottia cyanocephala) really captured my attention. TheContinue reading “Guatemala Day 3”
Guatemala Day 2
I realized after I published my post yesterday, from Guatemala City, that I should have saved it until this morning, but I goofed up, and now I have reason to show you this evening already some of the amazing sights we saw today. Before breakfast, I was looking out the window of our hotel roomContinue reading “Guatemala Day 2”
Guatemala Day 1
Anne and I arrived safe and sound in Guatemala City early this afternoon, and after we delt with the shenanigans of their new-fangled, all-digital customs declaration, we walked the few blocks to our hotel for the night. On the way, I could hear plenty of birds calling, and I couldn’t wait to check in soContinue reading “Guatemala Day 1”
Travel Day 1
We left Milwaukee before sunrise this morning, we don’t land in Guatemala until 1:30pm, so I don’t have much hope of getting any new pictures for you today. Instead, let me show you a couple of my favorites from our visit the Brazilian Amazon back in 2023. A fork-tailed flycatcher (Tyrannus savana) perched on aContinue reading “Travel Day 1”
Signs of Life in Estabrook Park 