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<blockquote data-quote="Peter C." data-source="post: 1373366" data-attributes="member: 68872"><p><strong>Trying to catch up...</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>January 1st, 2009</strong></p><p></p><p>Well, I’m obviously very far behind here but…my excuse is, I just came off vacation in Mexico, and so have only recently regained access to a computer. (Yes, I know there are internet cafes in Mexico, but I didn’t want to waste valuable birding (and generally goofing-off) time looking for one). I know you’re all feeling terribly sorry for me, being cut off from the internet for days at a time...</p><p></p><p>Since it looks like I will likely be spending the rest of 2009 in boring old Canada, I’m going to include the vacation birds in my year list. I was on the Pacific coast of Guerrero, north of Zihuatanejo. We stayed in very small hotel in a village called Troncones. (I highly recommend this area, and birding in Guerrero in general; I've been to places with a lot more diversity, but this was a quality over quantity sort of experience.)</p><p> </p><p>Birds are more or less in taxonomic order, rather than order of observation.</p><p></p><p>1. Brown Pelican</p><p>2. Magnificent Frigatebird</p><p>3. Green Heron</p><p>4. Black Vulture</p><p>5. Turkey Vulture</p><p>6. Short-tailed Hawk</p><p>7. Spotted Sandpiper</p><p>8. Wandering Tattler</p><p>9. Whimbrel</p><p>10. Ruddy Turnstone</p><p>11. Elegant Tern</p><p>12. Royal Tern</p><p>13. White-winged Dove</p><p>14. Orange-fronted Parakeet</p><p>15. Groove-billed Ani</p><p>16. Broad-billed Hummingbird</p><p>17. Cinnamon Hummingbird</p><p>18. Ruby-throated Hummingbird</p><p>19. Citreoline Trogon</p><p>20. Ladder-backed Woodpecker</p><p>21. Willow Flycatcher</p><p>22. Vermilion Flycatcher</p><p>23. Brown-crested Flycatcher</p><p>24. Tropical Kingbird</p><p>25. Warbling Vireo</p><p>26. Rufous-naped Wren</p><p>27. Sinaola Wren</p><p>28. Happy Wren</p><p>29. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher</p><p>30. Rufous-backed Robin</p><p>31. Virginia's Warbler</p><p>32. Yellow Warbler</p><p>33. Black-throated Gray Warbler</p><p>34. Yellow-breasted Chat</p><p>35. Red-crowned Ant-tanager</p><p>36. Stripe-headed Sparrow</p><p>37. Northern Cardinal</p><p>38. Painted Bunting</p><p>39. Great-tailed Grackle</p><p>40. Streak-backed Oriole</p><p></p><p>Most of the birds I saw January first were on a half-day excursion into the Sierra Madre; plus a few birds seen from the hotel (at sea level) in the afternoon.</p><p></p><p>By the way, this was a very casual drive we took up into the mountains; we hadn’t a clue where to go, really, except that I knew from Steve Howell’s book that it’s a good idea to get up into the sierras for the change of habitat (his <em>Bird-finding Guide to Mexico</em> doesn’t cover the particular part of the state we were in). We just drove along the highway into the interior (#134) and stopped where it looked promising (and possible – there aren’t very many good places to pull over on these roads). But despite the unplanned nature of the trip, it proved to be a very good bet.</p><p></p><p>Cheers,</p><p>Peter C.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Peter C., post: 1373366, member: 68872"] [b]Trying to catch up...[/b] [B]January 1st, 2009[/B] Well, I’m obviously very far behind here but…my excuse is, I just came off vacation in Mexico, and so have only recently regained access to a computer. (Yes, I know there are internet cafes in Mexico, but I didn’t want to waste valuable birding (and generally goofing-off) time looking for one). I know you’re all feeling terribly sorry for me, being cut off from the internet for days at a time... Since it looks like I will likely be spending the rest of 2009 in boring old Canada, I’m going to include the vacation birds in my year list. I was on the Pacific coast of Guerrero, north of Zihuatanejo. We stayed in very small hotel in a village called Troncones. (I highly recommend this area, and birding in Guerrero in general; I've been to places with a lot more diversity, but this was a quality over quantity sort of experience.) Birds are more or less in taxonomic order, rather than order of observation. 1. Brown Pelican 2. Magnificent Frigatebird 3. Green Heron 4. Black Vulture 5. Turkey Vulture 6. Short-tailed Hawk 7. Spotted Sandpiper 8. Wandering Tattler 9. Whimbrel 10. Ruddy Turnstone 11. Elegant Tern 12. Royal Tern 13. White-winged Dove 14. Orange-fronted Parakeet 15. Groove-billed Ani 16. Broad-billed Hummingbird 17. Cinnamon Hummingbird 18. Ruby-throated Hummingbird 19. Citreoline Trogon 20. Ladder-backed Woodpecker 21. Willow Flycatcher 22. Vermilion Flycatcher 23. Brown-crested Flycatcher 24. Tropical Kingbird 25. Warbling Vireo 26. Rufous-naped Wren 27. Sinaola Wren 28. Happy Wren 29. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 30. Rufous-backed Robin 31. Virginia's Warbler 32. Yellow Warbler 33. Black-throated Gray Warbler 34. Yellow-breasted Chat 35. Red-crowned Ant-tanager 36. Stripe-headed Sparrow 37. Northern Cardinal 38. Painted Bunting 39. Great-tailed Grackle 40. Streak-backed Oriole Most of the birds I saw January first were on a half-day excursion into the Sierra Madre; plus a few birds seen from the hotel (at sea level) in the afternoon. By the way, this was a very casual drive we took up into the mountains; we hadn’t a clue where to go, really, except that I knew from Steve Howell’s book that it’s a good idea to get up into the sierras for the change of habitat (his [I]Bird-finding Guide to Mexico[/I] doesn’t cover the particular part of the state we were in). We just drove along the highway into the interior (#134) and stopped where it looked promising (and possible – there aren’t very many good places to pull over on these roads). But despite the unplanned nature of the trip, it proved to be a very good bet. Cheers, Peter C. [/QUOTE]
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