After our safaris in 2024, I prepared a series of posts detailing our experiences, to be published with the accompanying images. Some have since been shared on this blog, but a few passages fell into oblivion, buried under piles of other ideas, recent trips, and far too many projects. Both these environments rank highly among our preferred places to be. On "regular" safaris, we typically don't visit either, but we do occasionally run specialised trips that involve at least on

Only a few short days after the conclusion of this tour, I kicked off the month's second 10-day birding odyssey across Trinidad & Tobago. This edition was in the works for several years; my relationship with co-leader and good friend Benny began somewhere on the internet in ye olde pre-covid times and we had long been hatching itineraries to share with birders. This was his third time in T&T and I was thrilled to finally flip the switches on our ideas birthed from conversatio

This April involved two back-to-back 10-day birding tours in gorgeous Trinidad & Tobago – which also serves to explain my online absence. This year I have also taken a bit of a sabbatical regarding content for my social media platforms; this extended to almost a complete hiatus from tech for my February trip, where we kept track of our sightings around dinner each night using the traditional method of pen and spreadsheet. For these two tours, however, I returned to eBird to t