Six Word Memoir Meme

I was tagged by Birdfreak for this 6 word meme which has to describe your inner birder. I usually don't meme... I hope the 'victims' tagged here carry on with it :)

This is the result of mine:

Birds Plus Blogs Equals Fun Learning

To continue the fun, we must tag five others:

1. Birdingnet.com

2. Mon@rch's Nature Blog

3. Born Again Bird Watcher

4. Nature Knitter

5. Mary's View


The rules are:

1. Write your own six word memoir.

2. Post it on your blog and include a visual illustration if you’d like.

3. Link to the person that tagged you in your post and to this original post if possible so we can track it as it travels across the blogosphere.

4 .Tag five more blogs with links.

5. And don’t forget to leave a comment on the tagged blogs with an invitation to play!

Caminando por Guayaquil

Walking along Guayaquil parks we found a few birds. Most of them couldn't be pictured, they were either too far or too fast :(

Anyway, on this post I'll show you some of the guys we found, please click to enlarge the pics and sorry for the poor quality...

First one, this guy hiding in a HUGE ficus, grabbing a seed that he dropped later on...


... then he went seeking for more...



... he stopped right in front of us (we were on a bridge, trying to get as close as possible), and with our max possible zoom this is what we got...

We continued walking and found this other guy, some kind of heron? I have no idea, I'm such a begginer with just one small guide for my local city! hahaha... Totally clueless but hopefully not for long ;)


At the 'Parque Histórico' we found some colourful guys that will be posted soon. For now I'll leave you with these (also trying to id them!)


Most of this post's pics are kind of a 'Where's Waldo?' game, trying to find the bird or birds in a small bad pic (click to enlarge), like the following... Can you find the two birdies here?


This guy was huge! Couldn't get any closer pics, we were WAY DOWN in the ground, anyone can guess what it is??? HELP!


And finally these fellows, in the 'Jardines del Malecón' (Gardens of the Malecon)


See you in the next post! Have to go now, family is waiting to have lunch!

Iguana 'watching'... in a public plaza!

Hi there! Back in Lima now! My first post about the trip to Guayaquil has to do with a park in the middle of the city...

Parque Seminario, also known as 'Parque de las Iguanas' is a few metres across from Guayaquil's Cathedral.

It is a small park with a few trees and possibly a couple hundred of iguanas!


Some of them come down the trees at around noon and go back up when the sun sets...


They share the park with some birds, mostly pigeons, that look strange while walking around the iguanas... I think some pigeons might want to 'change flocks', as the long tailed fellows get more attention (and food) from the visitors.


All sizes and colours: from one to five feet long, from bright green to dark brown, they walk around, lay quiet on the stone paths or grass, climb up the trees...


They eat celery and lettuce that some people bring for them, a couple fight over the same piece making sounds and trying to bite each other...


After 'lunch' some of them go up again and stay on the branches above people's heads, we stood up in the sun, then saw a few iguanas on the top peeing!, quite funny to see people jumping around trying to avoid the 'attack'...


I hope you liked this post, we had a lot of fun watching these guys and some others that I'll upload and talk about in the following days :)