I got selected to go East to CATIE, while the rest of our group chills in the cloud forests of Monteverde. It’s a really sweet institute, with a gorgeous lake surrounded by egrets. We aren’t allowed in the grass at night though, because of venomous snakes lurking around. Last night we watched Mexico pummel Costa Rica into a pulp! It was a nice surprise to find that I wasn’t the only Mexico fan on the campus.
Our first night here we had an amazing talk on biological corridors, and I think I fell in love with the idea of undoing damage that people have caused. I want to pursue this interest a bit further after I graduate.
This morning, we got to wake up around 5:30 to go to a field bird monitoring station, and we got to see them take some measurements on something like 4 hummingbirds and then put a band on an olive-headed yellow-throated warbler. Pretty sweet stuff, although completely outside my normally scheduled waking hours. Anyways, we have an hour or two of downtime until we have to get together to start hashing out our big group project. Just wanted to report that all is fine and I am still most certainly in love with biology, so Dad you can rest easy and know your investment in this trip was money well spent.
Sadly, no photo today, just too hot and tired to bother.
Pura Vida-
Anthony
