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Jim and Linda and Another Big Tree
Working on the Bucket List Some More
This year we had a less special, but still noteworthy twin prime birthday this year. So, without calculating how many years we had left, we continued our search for interesting wildlife left in the world.
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Striped Kingfisher
We visited Tanzania in Februarfy and March to see the Wildebeest migration and catch up on some birds missing from our African list. We’ll need another visit to the largest continent before we’re done, but west Africa seems a bit iffy right now, so we settled on the safest part of East Africa, where we had a wonderful trip.
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Greater Sage-grouse
April found us in snowy, cold Colorado on a hunt for Grouses. As most of the grouse hunting took place in the gloaming, photographs are limited, but we did get a few. We wound up with a clean sweep of all the grouse species to be found there, including the newly split Gunnison Sage Grouse, as well as lots of beautiful birds we hadn’t seen in quite a while.
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Tom Macintosh Dressed as Lewis
After an interlude with the Baker Boys at one of their annual mini-reunions, where we lucked into a Woodpecker Festival nearby, we headed to Montana, where we joined fellow Rice Alums on a trip following the route of Lewis and Clark.
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Jaguar
In August, we returned to Brazil for the first time since 1985. That year we went on our first major international trip, a four week survey of much of Brazil south of the Amazon with Robert Ridgely and the legendary Ted Parker as guides. This trip was shorter, but did produce a great view of one target species.
Links to Trip Reports
I tried blogging trip reports, but found that most people preferred to get the final report as a PDF file. Here are the trip reports we have available. No report for the Grouse trip. Getting up way before dawn and birding until dark took it out of me.
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Most of the Family
Meanwhile back in the USA
We didn’t neglect the USA this year, traveling to Houston for Granny’s 93 birthday celebration. We gathered the non-California family members for a portrait. There is a small prize to anyone who can identify everyone.
On to 2016
Best wishes for 2016.
Visitors are welcome Chez Hargrove.
Stay in touch. You can always reach us using the contact form on this website. You can also find Jim, and now Linda, on Facebook. Jim is on Twitter also, as Neoscona.
