Well! I see, via a post at Brother Axel's Birding Mongolia blog, that now all the requirements for my happy life in this land have been met. That is to say, the first-ever Bird Watching Club of Mongolia has been formed. I intend to become a charter member pronto, and suggest we rename it the Internaitonal Bird Watching Club of Mongolia. They have their own blog and, while it is in Mongolian, there're plenty of purty pitchers, including one of the dad-blasted Bohemian Waxwing, which has thus far eluded me on several continents! I won't be able to join their field trip this Sunday, as that's the 10th day of the lunar month. We're going out somewhere in the sacred Bogd Khan mountains to do the Shower of Blessing tsog offering. Or dance nekkid in the snow wearing stag horns. Or something. But spring migration's coming, and I'll be a-peepin' with them soon.
If anyone cares a-tall, I saw 221 new species throughout Australia. That is, if the Australian Osprey has truly been split off as a separate species from the North American one. You all have been following this bitter taxonomic controversy, right? I need not elaborate?
PS: You think you're a hardcore birder? Check this dude out, in the western Mongolian province of Khovd in deep winter. Great pix, too.
i say wellcame birds.Cats are far way.
Posted by: everybody | March 14, 2008 at 02:09 PM