Fall, briefly
Summer in 2019 was an almost surreal experience, with work and travel taking me to Ethiopia, Indonesia, the Philippines and, for an afternoon , Dubai. Of course, at the end of it I had to travel back to Washington DC, and deal with the underwhelming DC birding scene for the remainder of the year. It's hard to overstate how disappointing it is coming from the tropics to Washington DC in the summertime, where it's a struggle to find more than 12 or so species of bird on a hot, sweaty and quiet birding adventure. I also found myself incredibly busy in my second year of graduate school, and between classes and work I had much less time to get out birding than I usually do- usually only a couple of times on weekends, or to twitch when particularly good birds appeared. That means that there's also relatively little to blog about, which I suppose is a good thing considering how dreadfully behind I am with this blog. I took a day to sleep off the jet lag after I arriv...