I must admit, I am a bit tardy with this post. Keeping up with a blog is hard work! We caught our first birds on Friday! It took a long time but at the end of the day we went home with 1 P. dominica, 8 C. fuscicollis, 3 J. jacana, 1 A. lutescens (Yellowish Pipit),
1 P. coronata (Red-crested Cardinal). Seven of the fuscicollis were caught with the drop-net at the same time. My excitement from this day has waned however since we have been unable to spot any birds on the flat in the past two days. I don't know where they have gone or if they have not arrived yet but there certainly are not at Bahia de Asuncion.
Saturday we spent more time finding metal
post for the drop-nets, another exciting excursion around the city, and indulging in the traditional touristy activities downtown. I finally got a meal that wasn't just bread and cheese or meat, that was a relief! That afternoon, we tried the bahia again armed with our new magnificent post for the drop net but we went home defeated.
This morning we went out again, very early. It was Brett's last day here in Paraguay and I wanted to send him home with good feelings and with a few more shorebirds banded in South America. Unfortunately, again we were shut out. We trekked to other inlets of the bay looking for habitat and rattled our bones on the dirt roads that criss-cross the sandbar to no avail.
Brett is on the plane destined to for Kansas tomorrow afternoon and Peter and I are on our last night here at the Hotel Baravia. Leticia helped me find an apartment for the remainder of our time here in Paraguay. The hotel is getting muy expensive and the apartment, though expensive for Paraguay will save some money. It is very nice, and very safe. Did I mention it was very nice?!
Just before I left the U.S. I received the final release version of National Geographic's Handheld Birds, a project that I worked on last year (see link at left). Thus I ended up bringing a Palm Pilot with me to South America, something I thought was completely unnecessary but brought along anyhow. Looking up words in the paper dictionary is giving me fits and I decided to I download a Spanish-English dictionary to help with my language studies and so far it is proving very useful. Wish me luck! Ciao!
post for the drop-nets, another exciting excursion around the city, and indulging in the traditional touristy activities downtown. I finally got a meal that wasn't just bread and cheese or meat, that was a relief! That afternoon, we tried the bahia again armed with our new magnificent post for the drop net but we went home defeated.
This morning we went out again, very early. It was Brett's last day here in Paraguay and I wanted to send him home with good feelings and with a few more shorebirds banded in South America. Unfortunately, again we were shut out. We trekked to other inlets of the bay looking for habitat and rattled our bones on the dirt roads that criss-cross the sandbar to no avail.
Brett is on the plane destined to for Kansas tomorrow afternoon and Peter and I are on our last night here at the Hotel Baravia. Leticia helped me find an apartment for the remainder of our time here in Paraguay. The hotel is getting muy expensive and the apartment, though expensive for Paraguay will save some money. It is very nice, and very safe. Did I mention it was very nice?!
Just before I left the U.S. I received the final release version of National Geographic's Handheld Birds, a project that I worked on last year (see link at left). Thus I ended up bringing a Palm Pilot with me to South America, something I thought was completely unnecessary but brought along anyhow. Looking up words in the paper dictionary is giving me fits and I decided to I download a Spanish-English dictionary to help with my language studies and so far it is proving very useful. Wish me luck! Ciao!
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Kudos on Friday's birds!
May we see pics of the apartment?
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