Greetings from Puerto Rico!

Puerto Rican Spindalis, Puerto Rico's National Bird

Our group arrived in Puerto Rico today for our 5-day Endemic Dash tour and started off with this beautiful splash of color in the waning daylight hours. We spent an hour at Laguna Tortuguero and already have 3 of our 16 target endemic birds and a bunch of the Caribbean specialties. We should get 6 or 7 more endemics by mid-day tomorrow!

Our blog has been quite silent lately as both Adrian and I have been so active in not only trip preparation (Adrian is off to Africa again on Friday!) but also the creation of a brand new Wildside Nature Tours brochure. Our biggest ever -- 24 pages of trip info and photos from around the globe!

It is late here and we need to get up at 5:00AM... so I hope to blog a few more times while here, then post more images upon my return!

text and photo © Kevin Loughlin