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

Our 10 day safari in Uganda in June 2025 was our seventh safari overall - but it was an entirely new country and environment which we were unfamiliar with. I like to do a little reading before I visit somewhere, but not too much such that I become overburdened with information and superfluous prep material. I knew that there was going to be some walking involved, some of which would be done at elevation. A glance at our itinerary told me that we'd be enjoying several boat tr

The glaciated ceiling of the Rwenzori mountains feeds multitudinous trickles down slopes gentle and precipitous, most of which gathers in...