A pair of these birds flew close and hung around us for a while, probably making sure we weren't going to cause their nest any trouble. It was a rare treat to see them so close up, both in flight and perching! A little smaller than a red-tail hawk, each was about 18" beak to tail.
We recently had the good fortune to work and visit family in the Boston area while the fall foliage was at its peak!
The temperatures in Indonesia, Thailand and Cambodia were like training camp, preparing us to handle the heat of India - and a good thing, too, since India in late May and early June is about as hot as either of us has ever been...
We've been watching monkeys a lot lately... they're everywhere, they're indifferent to our presence (as long as we remain respectful), and they're endlessly entertaining!
A strangler fig (ficus aurea) and its host tree inexorably disassemble an 800 year old temple at Ta Phrom.
Coming in to Chumphorn on the ferry from Koh Tao, we passed a huge fishing fleet, mostly at port waiting out cyclone Nargis. We'd seen squid boats like this one, or rather
