Migration in Manila
Way back in October of last year, I finally made it back to the Philippines for the first time since May of 2024 . Now that Nikki is properly here in the US I have fewer excuses to go back, but the stars finally aligned this year and I had several projects for work that justified a return trip. Two return trips, in fact, but more about that later. I arrived in Manila on Friday, October 8 and had a weekend to settle in before work meetings started in earnest. And by "settle in" I mean "get up at 3AM on Saturday morning to go birding." I had been in touch with the birding network as I got ready to go, and birding friends Gwen and Moleen graciously offered to take me out to Infanta. Obviously I wasn't going to turn down the offer, especially since that Saturday happened to be fall eBird Big Day . I have a long history of taking Big Day in the Philippines more seriously than I probably should, and while I wasn't going to be out the whole day this time it was ...