Wow, I'm behind. I think it would be impossible to fully catch up on recording here, so I'll give a brief summary of my bioexperience since last post. I've been to Las Alturas farm and private reserve and Cuerici farm and private reserve, missed seeing a quetzal my 10min (@Cuerici), seen a paramo in all it's splendor (@Cuerici), seen a troop of spider monkeys (@Las Alturas and since multiple times @La Selva), Camped out on the top of the mountain @Cuerici; seeing awesome stars before going to bed and perhaps the most amazing sunrise, save one in Haiti, I have ever seen, and in general enjoyed life. That was all just before getting to La Selva. Here, one of the group has commented that it's biodiversity on crack. I prefer to think of it as I've died and gone to a David Attenburough film. All matter of amazing wildlife fly/run/hop around one just moving through the central compound. Iguanas habitually hang over the central bridge and spider monkeys swing past the window of the computer room while we work on our projects. I've seen an eyelash pitviper twice; once with our guide on our orientation walk and once since after fellow herp enthusiast John willed (and perhaps, though no proof exists, chased) a lizard into the snakes path, leaving him with a large bulge in his stomach. Seen two different sp. of basilisk, got pissed at by a howler monkey (at least this guy missed, unlike the lemur @St. Cat's), caught and bled dart frogs, seen more sp. or birds, frogs, lizards, and arthropods than I would have thought possible, and I've barely been here a week. Life is good.
View from paramo
Paramo
Eyelash palm pitviper
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