What to Take With You While it is true that you don’t need any special equipment to enjoy watching birds, there are a number of things that enhance the experience. Some make the physical observation of birds more comfortable. Others… Read More »Birding Equipment
November 28 – 30, 2023 After our three days in El Calafate, we flew back to Buenos Aires. My parents would remain there for the rest of the trip; I continued on early the next morning (as in the flight… Read More »Argentina Trip – Iguazú
November 24-26, 2023 After our three days in Ushuaia, we took a 1-hour, 20-minute flight to a much smaller town on the edge of the Andes Mountains in the Patagonia region. The population of El Calafate is roughly 25,000 according… Read More »Argentina Trip – El Calafate
November 21-23, 2023 After we spent the first 4 days of our trip in Beunos Aires, we took a plane down to Ushuaia. Ushuaia is the southernmost city in the world, though there are one or two Chilean towns further… Read More »Argentina Trip 2023 – Ushuaia
November 16-20, December 1-4, 2023 I won’t describe the events of each day of our trip step by step, because the minutiae of our daily activities doesn’t matter much in the context of making you the reader want to go… Read More »Argentina Trip 2023 – Buenos Aires
November 16 – December 4, 2023 On November 16, 2023, my parents and I left for our much-anticipated trip to Argentina, the country where my father grew up. The last time I went, in the summer of 2007, I had… Read More »Argentina 2023 – My Trip in Brief
The most rudimentary things you need to know about how and where to find birds to observe The first thing you need to know about bird-watching is that you don’t have to have any fancy equipment or go anywhere special.… Read More »Birding Basics