Ivory-Billed Woodpecker

So to-day is when results from the Guerrero election are expected. As one newspaper columnist explained it, organized electoral delinquency. The bane of anyone blogging is that nothing has happened worth posting for post-erity. Glad to say the newspaper here has said there was a fatal shooting on Thursday in this municipality, within 24 hours of my arrival. Meanwhile the tourists keep coming to the beach and most of them have their head in the sands saying its as safe as houses. They just dont read the local papers or perhaps more to the point, ignore the situation if no tourist is implicated. But the tourist fraternity is happy and friendly and so too are the vast majority of our hosts.
Now, that Darwinian paradise. Takes a launch ride of ten minutes up the lagoon to the golf course. One of the most beautiful in the country, not that I have seen many but how could it not be? The course has retained a lot of vegetation. Amongst the trees and bushes I spotted an Ivory-billed woodpecker the other day. My bird book suggests it is almost extinct, and here is me a rookie ornithologist clapping eyes on one. Turkey vultures and flycatchers are common too, to go along with pelicans, waders, frigate birds etc. I have in mind to go back to the beach where I noted a dozen different species of crabs one time, all adapted in some Darwinian way to their small niche.