Well, I have wandered quite a wayse since I last updated this blog. The most interesting adventure was a month long course called Ecology and Biogeography of Patagonia which was tought in Argentina. Here this and the next fiew posts are some photos from the escapades! Enjoy.

These First photos are from Chaluaco, a vally just to the south of Bariloche in the Argentine Lake District (except the pink building, which is the presedential palace, El Casa Rosada, in Buenos Aires.) The flowers are Alstromeria, and grow like a carpet everywhere. The poor photo of a bird is a Majelenic Woodpecker which is a member of the same genus as the Ivory Billed Woodpecker and Peleated Woodpecker. The girl climbing the tree is retreeving a recently hatched parakeet chick. (which will be the first photo in the next post)
~andrew