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Trail Log 2005-2009 Trail Log 2005-2009 Holmes Rolston, III Summary 2005 Belize, March. Natural history, especially birds. Mayan ruins. Snorkeling, Hol Chan Marine Reserve, Shark Ray Alley. Toffy Channel, Tres Cocos. Iceland, June. Skaftafell National Park, glaciers. Whaling trips. Yukon Territory, June. Kluane National Park. Hiking. Overflight of glaciers, Mt. Logan. Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness, horsepacking, hiking, July. Yale University, New Haven, fall. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and Appalachian hiking, October . 2006 Yale University. New Haven. spring. Nassau, Bahamas. June. Cambridge, UK and East Anglia, July University of Montana, Missoula, and related trips. Backpacking and hiking, Rocky Mountain National Park. Bristol, Virginia, and Appalachians nearby, September. 2007 Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, January. Mayan ruins and natural history. Serengeti wildebeest migration, March. Northland College, Ashland, Wisconsin, March. Davidson College, North Carolina. Presbyterian College, Clinton, South Carolina, and related hikes. Stetson University. Deland, Florida, and related boat trip. Bahamas, June. Powerboat trip to cays. Trips on Grand Bahama Island. Backpacking, hiking, Rocky Mountain National Park. University of Georgia, Athens. Gainesville, Georgia. Mount Toxaway, North Carolina. 2008 Morelia, Mexico, including Paríícutin (Volcáán de Paríícutin), January. Galapagos Islands, March. Zion National Park, Utah, March. Porto, Portugal, Serralves Conference, and tours of nearby countryside. Bob Marshall Wilderness horsepacking trip, Chinese Wall, with Christopher Preston, July. September 28-November 15, Taiwan. Includes lectures at National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, and other universities. Visits to Shan-Ping Nature Reserve, Yang- Ming Shan National Park, Guandu National Park, Wulai area (ferns) National Museum of Marine Biodiversity and Aquarium, Shi-Tsao wetland area, Cilan Forest Conservation area, including Confucius tree, sprouted in 551 B.C., Taiwan Red Cypress. visit to Hong Kong. 2009 Finland and conference on Celestial Aesthetics, Valamo Monastery, Heinävesi, March. Korea May. Jeju Island, Chen-ju University, climb of Mount Hallasan. Climb of Geomonorem and seaside Seongsan Ilchubong. mainland Upo Wetland, Chuncheon, and Hallym University, Seoul. Yellowstone National Park, tracking seminar, May. Phoenix, AZ. Metanexus Conference., July. Backpacking, Rocky Mountain National Park, August. London and Royal Institute of Philosophy lecture, October. Derbyshire. Chatsworth, Lyme Park, Down House (Darwin's country estate). Tucson, Arizona, Madera Canyon, Coronado National Forest, December. Trail log 2005 January 7, 2005. Red fox was briefly in the backyard in the snow. Beautiful sight with him trotting across the yard in the snow. I called Jane from the bedroom window, but the window was cracked to air out the room, and he heard me and vanished around the side by the gate. I later went out and looked at his tracks. Rather much in a straight line, though not perfectly so. February 12, 05. Two crocus in bloom at front porch, on lovely day. Jane has been in cast and boot since early December, but she can walk out to see it. In fact, she took herself to Safeway yesterday. Belize 2005 March 11, 2005. Left Ft. Collins, 4.30 a.m. Check in Denver 6.15 a.m. Change Dallas/Ft. Worth Arrive, Belize City 3.30 p.m. In the group: Sally Bethea, active in Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeepers. [email protected] 916 Joseph Lowry Blvd., Suite 3. Atlanta, GA 30318. with two sons: Charles Bethea, recent graduate in English of Brown University Robert Bethea, a freshman at Colgate Stephen Bissell, a retired banker, lives in Lake Worth Florida, but from the north [email protected] Linda Bissell, his wife Margaret Kennedy, born in Germany, an accountant in U.S. for decades. Morristown, New Jersey Guide: Nathan Forbes # 7061 Pilicaw St. Belize City Belize, CA (Central America) proved to be an excellent guide all round, and especially good ornithologist, as good as any I recall in his own habitat. Belize was British Honduras, became independent in 1981, though it had had effective independence long before. The British sought timber and to that end brought many slaves from 1600's to 1833, when the British banned slavery throughout the empire. That has left the largest ethnic group African (pure Africans, Creoles and Caribs) at 57%. Mestizos (mixed European, mostly Spanish, and Maya) are 22%. Mayans are 13%. English is the main language. Jane and I were picked up at the airport, and joined a van that had been waiting several hours for us. We drove to New River, north two hours. Turkey vulture. Spiny-tailed iguana on cement blocks. Drove through pine savannah, degraded landscape. Much of the land had been burned. Sugar cane on truck headed to sugar cane factory. At Toll Bridge, 17 km. south of Orange Walk, transfer to motorboat for and ride back south on New River for 1 ½ hours to Lamanai. Orange Walk. In local English a "walk" was a name for an orchard. ringed kingfisher, nicely seen. palmetto forests. snail kite--black, yellow feet, nicely seen. turkey vulture. purple gallinule rough-winged swallow little blue heron, flew ahead of boat for half a mile limpkin neotropic cormorant cattle egret, in rookery We rode by a Mennonite community named Shipyard (Lonely Planet, 107). They own 40,000 acres here. Morlet's crocodile seen several times. This is a freshwater crocodile and an endangered species. night flowering cactus. Bat pollinated on a limb over the river. nightjar in flight over the river and a hair sliver of a new moon great blue heron neotropic cormorant Reached Lamanai on New River Lagoon. Lagoon is their word for a pond or wide area in the river. "Lamanai" means "submerged crocodile" (Lonely Planet, p. 137. Lamanai is a Mayan site occupied from 300 B.C. to A.D. 700 or so and spasmodically thereafter, a long site along the New River. Excavated somewhat by Canadians. March 12, Saturday. Morning birdwalk. Black orchid, Enyclia cochleata Ginger Cow-horned orchid melodious blackbird common yellowthroat Sibal palm Bayleaf palm house wren Canna lily Morning glory Yellow throated Euphonia guava tree mahogany butterfly pea, a vine ground dove great-tailed grackle Cohune palm, Bigyna cahune papaya blue-black grassquit, small black bird in grass magnolia warbler castor bean yellow-billed cacique white-necked puffbird, our best bird of the day red-billed pigeon keel-billed toucan, their national bird custard apple key lime Avocado Cassia. Cassia grandis, with long pods return for breakfast hike to Maya ruins rubber tree Holocene, lobster flower Hibiscus Stemmenendia, with latex prothonotary warbler guava tree Acacaia -- shelters ants. strangler fig. Guanacaste tree mahogany, uneven leaf reached Lamanai museum. A Mennonite family, father and five boys all dressed about alike and in straw hats. Mother retiring in the rear. magnolia warbler, nicely seen. allspice tree, with smooth light bark reached Jaguar Temple, Early classic Mayan army ants black howler monkeys seen, and howling vigorously. Alouvatta pigra. They eat fruit, young leaves. There are six species of howler monkey. This is the black howler monkey, less common than the others. Others include the mantled and red howler monkeys. Until 1970, A. pigra was considered a subspecies of A. palliata, the red howler monkey. The howling keeps spaces between group territories. They are seldom seen on the ground. agouti - a large rodent Dasyprocta punctata 2.5 feet long, with tail, a yard long. They are much hunted for food and said to be very tasty. The woods we walked through here were composed mostly of many huge palm trees, overarching the trail, Orbygnia cahune. Cahune wood thrush, nicely seen reached Mask Temple, 100 B.C. to 150 A.D., with a large mask uncovered in 1970's, and now under shelter but still in place at a corner of the temple. Spanish moss more howler monkeys, juveniles reached the High Temple, 100 B.C. to 800 A.D. reached Stela 9 Temple mahogany, Swietenia macrophila Escoba, Crysophilia argentea, give-and-take tree, with spines Rubber tree, Castille elastica return and lunch. After lunch, lecture on Morlet's crocodile We walked to an abandoned sugar cane mill. Quite a picturesque ruin. A red-bricked ruin covered by a couple large strangler figs. From 1860's. British Honduras Company made a try at a sugar cane operation here, but it did not continue. Drove through the village of Indian Church. In the village, we saw a violaceous trogon. Cotton tree, Ceiba pentandra. Has a cottony fibre in it, used in life preservers. four howler monkeys, one asleep, one hanging by tail feeding agouti, crossing road. Returned for supper. After supper, night ride on boat, with big spotlight. boat-billed heron fishing bats over the water, quite a number of them seen in the spotlight. This is the great fishing bat, Noctilio leporinus, one of the largest bats in Central America. It echolocates ripples of fish breaking water. Then it trawls with feet to catch fish and swallows it in flight, or it can partly chew them and then hold them in a cheek pouch to be masticated later at a roost. It also eats insects caught in the wing or tail membrane. Belize has dozens of species of bats. gray-necked wood rail glimpse of an opossum in the trees northern potoo, perched at top of dead branch, nocturnal bird something like an owl little blue heron, perched in tree common paraque (pronounced: puh rock kee) northern potoo, better seen ringed kingfisher several crocodiles, mostly eyes in the river Eventually they caught a 12" small crocodile and we looked at it up close in the boat. Provision tree, Pachira aquatica, flowers with large night flowers, bat pollinated, and flowers last only one night March 13, Sunday. Left Lamanai, returned on the boat now going north on New River. Jaiburu stork, on nest, well seen. Others saw three high in the sky. The Jaiburu stork has a wingspan to eight feet, the largest flying bird in the Western hemisphere.
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