Sailing bird guy (1 Viewer)

[BryanP]

Hi,
New guy here, thought I’d drop by and say hello.
I ducked work one day without telling anyone and ran away to sea. I left Vancouver, Canada on my sailboat four years ago. Now I find myself in Bocas del Torro, Panama when I should, according to the original plan already be sailing in Europe. Instead I found myself shanghaied into a bird related project up in Costa Rica.
It’s a pretty cool project so I’m not worried about the changed travel plans because I now get to do the illustrations and paintings for a series of art books and field guides.

The bonus bit is I can hang out with the amazing birders down here. The Tico (Costa Ricans) birders have got to be some of the most knowledgeable birders I have ever had the pleasure to meet. It seems that all of them can distinguish the tiniest and quietest call buried in a morning cacophony and know which species, sex and age that tiny speck of a hummingbird is over two hundred meters away. They take their bird life seriously and are very fancy birders.

I myself am not a fancy birder, I don’t keep lists…. there I said it. If you live on an aging sailboat you’ll understand why. Boat owners keep work and todo lists, lots and lots of them. So when I start to think of bird lists I just get tired.
Anyway, sorry for the novel, got carried away. I do hope to get involved here.
Cheers,
Bryan

 

[delia todd]

Hi Bryan and a warm welcome to you from all the Staff and Moderators.

I'm sure you will enjoy it here and I look forward to hearing your news. Costra Rica seems to have a wonderful variety of birds, and beautiful ones at that!!

Good luck in your new life, and all the best for 2016.

 

[BryanP]

Thanks for the welcome Delia and all the best to you and all as well for 2016. I’m sure it’s going to be a lot of fun here.
Bryan

 

[KC Foggin]

Hi Bryan and a warm welcome to you from Myrtle Beach :t:

 

[BryanP]

Thanks KC, I'm already sticking my oar in around here so already it's fun. Cheers.

 

[Lisa W]

Hi Bryan and welcome to the forum. Nice of you to join us, sounds like a great project to be involved in.

 

[Chris G6 UXU]

Hello Bryan and welcome to the forum, enjoy and all the best.

 

[Kits]

Welcome to BirdForum! I am sure you will find lots to interest you here, and I hope you enjoy your visits.

 

[BryanP]

Thanks Lisa, Yes it is great but a lot of work.
Cheers,

 

[BryanP]

Thanks Chris g6, appreciate the welcome

 

[BryanP]

Hi Kits, Already finding lots of interesting things here.
Cheers,