Heading north . . .

[Mark Stackhouse <westwings at sisna dot com>]

Yesterday afternoon we were in the edge of the foothills overlooking 
the coastal plain of Chiapas, Mexico, watching Yellow-naped and 
White-fronted Parrots, and Orange-fronted and  Orange-chinned Parakeets 
make their roosting flights into the hills. We were still reveling in a 
stunning Turquoise-browed Motmot we had seen shortly before, and 
enjoying a serenade of Lesser Ground-Cuckoo, Gray-crowned Yellowthroat, 
and the squabbling of a pair of Social Flycatchers chasing a 
White-throated Magpie-Jay, when a large flock of birds passed high 
overhead, heading north. It was a flock of about 200 Franklin's Gulls. 
Has anyone seen a Franklin's in Utah yet this year? They're coming . . 
. .

I think I'll be following soon. See you when I get there.

Mark

Mark Stackhouse
Westwings, Inc.
westwings@sisna.com
801-487-9453 (Salt Lake City, Utah, USA)
011-52-323-285-1243 (San Blas, Nayarit, Mexico)

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