My wife and I went to Belize on our honeymoon, and a lot of our honeymoon was spent birdwatching. One of the birds we really wanted to see was the endangered Jabiru Stork, which is the tallest bird in the western hemisphere. We were to be in Belize 10 days. On the last day, we still hadn't seen one. we were on our way to the Belize Zoo, and our guide, a gentelman named Sam Tillett who is a birdwatching guide based out of Crooked Tree was lamenting that we had not seen a Jabiru the whole time we were there. He said if he could make anything happen for us before we left, he wanted it to be sighting a Jabiru. Less than 2 miles down the road later, Sam was doing about 50mph, when he slammed on the brakes, through up his hands and shouted "Jabiru!". Just off the road, in a cleared field was a gorgeous male Jabiru Stork. We got great looks with ou binoculars, and my wife made her way slowly closer and got a couple of decent pictures before it finally flew away. Ah, the power of po!
sitive thinking!
Brett A. Wolfe gismybabe at yahoo.com Seattle, Wa
Nladenbe at aol.com wrote:Hi all,

I had this happen to me twice in Michigan when I was just new to birding. I was looking at my bird book inside my cabin in N. Michigan and said to myself that the Black and White Warbler would be fun to see! Within minutes there was one on my deck. Now I know this is not where you usually see them but I didn't know that at that time.

Later that same year, at my place in lower Michigan I again was looking at my bird book and at a picture of a Rufous-sided Towhee, and very soon there was another "lifer" right under my bird feeder. Never saw one in that area after that.

Nancy Ladenberger
Kingston




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