It has been six years. Six long years since Jean and I travelled south of the continental United States to find birds. We were due. So to celebrate our 20th wedding anniversary last year, we decided to look into possible destinations and organized trips.
One stood out. Cuba in February 2019. Travelling through the western provinces with just the right mixture of endemics and species found in the West Indies. The last check in the pro column was the guide. Fellow Niagara birder Josh Vandermeulen would be leading the trip. That's all that we needed to reach a final decision.
So it was just a matter of waiting for 2018 to end and counting down the days until we left the cold and snow of southern Ontario bound for Havana. The fact that we would arrive just before midnight did not deter us. Jean had prepared a list of 81 species that we could possibly see that would be lifers and we would start working on scratching birds off that long list the very next morning.
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