A birding blog from Peru by Gunnar Engblom - Latest Comments

Re: Escape Christmas

SMS — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 00:58:50 -0000

this little birdie is so cutee

Re: Best bird of the world

Cindy Lenker — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:53:30 -0000

Great post!! Cool Owlet pic!! and I thought you were a serious guy...great singing :-))
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from cindy in Kansas!

Re: Best bird of the world

Cindy Lenker — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:50:45 -0000

WoW! Great post...I really liked the Owlet pic! and I was thinking you were a serious guy...NOT! Great singing :-)) Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from cindy in Kansas!

Re: Whalewatching in Lima, Peru

Dolphin Watching — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 06:31:35 -0000

Great photos. Bottle-nosed dolphins are beautiful, we get many of them here in Pembrokeshire, Wales.

Re: Whalewatching in Lima, Peru

Heidi Michelle Hellstern — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 02:18:57 -0000

Aww, wow. Cetaceans are so beautiful. I'd love to see that beaked whale! That's really cool!

Re: Whalewatching in Lima, Peru

Gunnar Engblom — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 02:56:03 -0000

Thanks Carlos!!

Re: 20 best birds of Lima pelagics, part 1

Gunnar Engblom — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 02:00:16 -0000

Thanks James

The Neotropical Birding article is still not ready for publication. The difficulties of getting a boat in Lima for deep-sea pelagics needs to be solved. I have great hopes to be able to work with IMARPE - it would make a lot of sense, although I imagine their large ships are costly to run and they are not able to take more passengers than available beds on board. iI hope to have our own soon, but I'd need at least 40 people taking the VIP program to make it feasible
In any case, this article made me go through and order my shots a bit more, so I am definitely closer to tie up the article.

Re: 20 best birds of Lima pelagics, part 1

Lowen James — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 05:17:06 -0000

Gunnar - like the article. Did you ever finish the piece for Neotropical Birding? Can't wait to reda it, if so. Your photo of a SPSkua intrigues me. From this one shot, the bill looks stocky and the bird's jizz rather more like Brown Skua than the SPS that I am used to from Antarctica. Do you have any other shots?

cheers, James Lowen

Re: Whalewatching in Lima, Peru

Carlos Capurro — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 20:04:34 -0000

I wasn't aware we have such a variety of whales in Peruvian waters. Thanks for such a good report! Keep the good work.

Re: Chumming techniques

Greg Roberts — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 00:03:50 -0000

Hi Gunnar
I have finally dived into blogging so I will following more closely your birdy activities. I've only just set up my own blog: http://sunshinecoastbirds.b....
This chumming piece is of interest as Saturday will be our inaugural pelagic off the Sunshine Coast. We recall that we used to cut up burley and thrown it in the water but these days, on pelagics off the Gold Coast, they trail a hession bag containing shark livers.
Greg Roberts

Re: Perpetual free birding in Peru.

fiberglass pool — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 05:43:02 -0000

This is the great blog, I'm reading them for a while,
thanks for the new posts!

Re: Perpetual free birding in Peru.

BAllen — Tue, 24 May 2011 14:59:02 -0000

Great idea Gunnar, how about a possible substitution of a local trip (eg. Santa Eulalia) for a pelagic?

Re: Canopy Walkway at Reserva Amazonica

Michelle — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 03:25:17 -0000

Interesting species.

Re: How to get world fame with one kick!

Gunnar Engblom — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 01:34:20 -0000

Thanks Sherry.
He was severely punished I think, but surely death sentence is a bit over
the top. He wasn't very smart in the damage control.

Gunnar Engblom-Lima, Peru.
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Re: How to get world fame with one kick!

Sherry Lidstone — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 18:14:35 -0000

Thanks Gunnar for a sane insight on what was a horrible situation all around :)

Re: Budget birding in January-May in Peru

Double Glazing — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 23:41:37 -0000

Amazing Hummingbird.It's the first time i saw it.Thanks a lot for sharing this video.They are really cute and wonderful at the forest.

Re: Gunnar’s weekly Twitter links about birding, birds and Social Media 2010-12-27

Double Glazing — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 18:25:15 -0000

Social Media play a big role this year and will surely do for the coming years in marketing industry.Leverage the internet using strategic analysis combine with social media.It's effective knowing your ups and where you can monetize later.

Re: Where the heck have you been Gunnar?

Gunnar Engblom — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 18:54:45 -0000

Thanks Skip. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and Lynn as well.

Re: Where the heck have you been Gunnar?

Gunnar Engblom — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 18:53:16 -0000

Corinna. Hahaha!
I have been wondering why I get over 300 readers on Birdingblogs and only around 60 here?

Re: Where the heck have you been Gunnar?

Gunnar Engblom — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 18:51:43 -0000

Tack Klacke. I am thinking of organizing completely Scandinavian departures at least once per year. Maybe there will be some interest for that - considering the recent all Swedish groups we have had? What do you think?

Re: Where the heck have you been Gunnar?

klacke — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 14:40:06 -0000

Agree with previous poster. Furthermore, the birdingblog activity is precisely what we office workers need during the cold winter months in order to dream.

Thanks Gunnar,

Re: Where the heck have you been Gunnar?

Corinna — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 11:55:53 -0000

We have all been reading the new bird blog with assorted authors!

LOL!

Corinna

Re: Where the heck have you been Gunnar?

Jedibirder1 — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 08:26:30 -0000

Great to have you back, but better that you have been busy.
Always wonderful to read your blogs and keep up with your
what you have going on in Peru. Thanks Gunnar and keep
up the good work. Merry Christams and Happy New Year to you
and your beautiful family.

Skip Nelson

Re: The Zen of Birding

Susan Guyette — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 23:48:40 -0000

As the co-author of the new book, Zen Birding, I would like to share the opening paragraph about birds as sentient beings, "all our relations" as we say in American Indian Country, U.S.A.

"Birding can be a spiritual practice. Spirituality, at depth, is simply connectedness. It is the connection of essences among living beings or, we might even say, among sentient beings. That term applies to animals and birds and probably trees and wildflowers as well as to people, because even flowers sense the movement of the sun and sense the rotation of the earth around the sun. They’re quite aware of the daily and annual rhythms of the planet. They sense these things. So they are sentient."

Re: Canopy Walkway at Reserva Amazonica

Double Glazing — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 05:55:09 -0000

This is an interesting blog entry.