What just happened?

So, if there are any of you blog readers left out there, I was off the face of the Earth for a few months, but now I am back in the Northwoods and all is well. I should have reasonable internet while I'm Algonquin and should have plenty of things to write about. It is Spring, after all, and new and exciting things are happening all the time!

But first, let's have a quick scroll to catch y'all up with what went down in the past couple of months! Find a comfy chair....

The place I work and live at in Costa Rica is called Rancho Naturalista. Check us out here - http://ranchonaturalista.net/

It is located in the Caribbean foothills. One of our specialty birds is the Snowcap. I saw it nearly every day.

Sunbitterns nested behind the house of a girl I kind of really liked, about a 40 min walk from Rancho.

It's usually very busy and we don't get much time off. When we do, we go to other places nearby.

Like the Turrialba volcano.

To look at things like this Bare-shanked Screech-Owl that we don't have at Rancho.

After 3 months, I needed to do a visa run. So I went to Panama.

Agami Heron

Ocellated Antbird

Slaty-backed Forest-Falcon

And Trinidad.

Tufted Coquette

Oilbirds

Scarlet Ibis roost at Caroni Marsh

And Tobago.

White-tailed Sabrewing

And then Panama again.

Spotted Antbird

Then I spent another couple of months at Rancho showing people more of our nice yard birds there.

White-crowned Manakin

Brown-billed Scythebill

Collared Aracari at the feeders

It got really quiet in April (that's the low season) so I had finally had some free time! I took my friend Karen Yuli to Tortuguero in the Caribbean lowlands.

We went canoeing. 

We saw some monkeys.

We saw some Sungrebes.

We saw some Caimans.

We saw our future.

it looks pretty good.






I went to Florida with Kyle.  (by accident because our plane was cancelled)

Least Bittern



Swallow-tailed Kite

Barred Owl chick

I went to Panama with Kyle and my friend Natalie who lives down there.

Pheasant Cuckoo

Tamandua

Rufous Motmot

I went to Algonquin Park.

It was still wintery. Now I'm sitting in a chair in Maple.

Hey, look, it's Spring!