Brrrr... Its Cold!

Mocking Bird in the rain in Galapagos, June 2005. It was no where near as cold as it is in Wisconsin now.

Cotopaxi in the Andes

Cotopaxi, one of the highest active (strato) volcanoes, as seen from the road to Yanococha from Quito in 2005. We were able to get out of the van and take pictures, though the volcano was a little ways away from where we were. We also saw Andean Condors the same day, also from a little far away. May be one day Shankar and I will get to climb it :)

I am thinking of...

... all the birds of the Galapagos and the disease ecology of their parasites and pathogens...

Galapagos Hawk

Monday Morning Blues

Wishing I were someplace warm, by the ocean, and without the ton of stuff I gotta be doing :)

These are a couple of the Galápagos Sea Lion (Zalophus wollebaeki), from the Rabida Island south of Santiago. Picture taken in June 2005.

Vermilion Flycather

This picture of the Vermilion Flycatcher (Pyrocephalus rubinus) male was taken in the Galapagos Islands, when I was there on a study trip in June 2005. He is a little puffed up from the light drizzle and a bunch of people taking pictures.