Recent People Pix - November 2016

Our Australia Part One group was forced to break all the rules of proper birding dress while visiting the Alice Springs sewage treatment plant...no bird could possibly miss us! Photo by participant Charlotte Byers.

Meteorite impact crater? World's largest ant-lion pit? Discovery of a mini-volcano that spews sand? Ah, wait...it's a disused Malleefowl mound in Australia! Photo by participant Charlotte Byers, with thanks to her husband, Bill, for a sense of scale!

There could hardly be a better place than O'Reilly's in Lamington National Park to add a new ornament to one's cap. Australian King-Parrot (as here for guide Doug Gochfeld), or Crimson Rosella, or perhaps a Regent Bowerbird? All are possible! Photo by participant Chuck Holliday.

Co-guiding our recent Ireland tour: at right, the Raven (Terry McEneaney) with his peerless flock leader, the Social Flycatcher (Karen McEneaney). Thanks to participant Mary Lou Barritt for this pic!

Guide Jay VanderGaast appears to be making an offering to the bird-gods on our recent New Guinea & Australia tour. He'll do anything for the success of the group! Photo by guide Doug Gochfeld.

It's challenging being a vegetarian in Argentina, but if you're a carnivore, well, it's "churrasco" heaven! Guide Jesse Fagan and group sIt down to feast in this photo by guide Willy Perez. Pass the chimichurri, please...

Want a great view of a Yellow Rail? We've got just the ticket...a ride on a Louisiana rice combine. And that new birding swag on guide Dave Stejskal and folks? Goggles for safety and dust masks for the chaff. Great views were had! Photo by participant Charlene Glacy.

In a scene (and color scheme) that might have come from a sci-fi movie, a local guide illuminates Little Penguins at a colony on Australia Part One. Photo by participant Bill Byers.

The sign says it all...it was a big milestone day for participant Steve Matherly! Guides Jesse Fagan and Willy Perez, either side of Steve, and local guide Emiliano pause for a celebratory pic.

It happens...we go out at dawn, work our way through a bevy of fantastic bird sightings, then the sun comes out late morning...and Papuan sleeping sickness sets in. Photo by guide Doug Gochfeld at Varirata National Park.

It almost looks like a studio backdrop, but it's for real: beautiful Simpson's Gap, west of Alice Springs. Those two postcard-worthy celebs are our own Grebe and Kingfisher, guides Rose Ann Rowlett and John Coons, co-leading a recent Australia tour. Photo by participant Fred Dalbey.

Thank goodness our binoculars can't get this far out of alignment! Woodswallow scoping on the New Guinea & Australia tour, by guide Doug Gochfeld.

Guide Marcelo Padua takes the high ground as our Safari Brazil group birds Cipo National Park, home to such goodies as Hyacinth Visorbearer and Cipo Canastero. Photo by participant Marshall Dahl.

So many possibilities for this caption--no doubt you have your own! Here's our group birding beneath Sao Francisco's gaze on the Safari Brazil tour. Photo by participant Marshall Dahl.