Palawan Down Low
After a successful but rather tiring hike up Mount Victoria, we had a single day of birding left in Palawan, before Andrew flew home to the US and I flew home to Sorsogon. Our schedule was cramped enough, and Mount Victoria took long enough, that I took a gamble on seeing enough birds on Mount Victoria that we would only need a single day to clean up everything else we needed. That was only partially successful; while we had some good birds on the mountain, the best ones were mostly heard only or poorly seen. My hope had been to go with the inimitable Randy Tibor, likely the best bird guide on Palawan and one of the best guides in general I've ever met. Unfortunately Randy ended up being busy that day, so he put me in touch with Alon, another local guide. Alon picked us up from our hotel in Puerto Princesa very early the next day, and we headed out to the Napsan road, where I had high hopes of seeing the rest of our targets. It ended up being a very good but also very frust...