la Fiesta!

I don´t want to give everyone the false impression that all we have been doing here is running around the bush like crazy gringos!!! We are using our extra time to try out all the varieties of Mexican beers (there is much more than just Corona) and sampling the different tequilas off course!!!! This is one of the tame pictures but we will leave it at that for now! Ah yes and are famous homemade mexican BBQ!

Jaguar!!!

Here is the latest pictures from our remote cameras! We are not just picking up King Vultures! Here are pictures from two nights ago with the jaguar! Cuidado!

Turkey vulture Piñatas

We will be trying a new experiment this week to observe the interactions between King Vultures and Turkey Vultures. Thus, we had to build Turkey Vultures piñatas, I am not sure if the king Vulture will like them but I can say that the kids really want me to fill´em with candies!

La maison

Je peux bien me permettre une petite note en francais de temps en temps! Voici notre petite maison a Zoh Laguna, parfaite petite maison de terrain! Nous avons eau semi-courant, electricite et poele propane, l´essentiel dans le fond, pas mal mieux que notre camp dans le bois!

Menonites

Lesa and Cheryl, I have to tell you that there are many many Menonites in the region that we are working in, this makes me think of both of you!

now with the cool stuff!

Our first experiment is proving to be very fruitful. Last week we set field cameras at carcass sites and waited a week to see what magical things we would get. This morning the team retrived the cameras and the results... incredible. We have over 50 pictures of videos and photos of our famous King Vulture, yup it really exists! Here is one of the shots then by the cam and in the back you can see the second camera, really cool! You can see how their throat areas (typically called the crop) are really extended, meaning they are feeding like mad! Que suerte!

I lied to all of you last week! I told you that Julien and I did not see anything in the observation tower... I managed to take this pretty decent picture of a Keel Billed Toucan! Another incredible bird!