Picos Gemeos

Mom coughs in the guesthouse’s living room, our cleaning lady Jéssica moves through mom's bedroom, and the maritacas make their usual racket in the garden.

I'll venture out later with Merlin – Cornell University’s bird app – to capture their songs and log them in. Yesterday, the app recorded a bird I'd never heard before—just the one. I'd been hearing its song from the garden, just outside my office window, plus the wood tapping of a woodpecker; a toucan too. Eventually I stepped outside but never spotted the mysterious bird; my only proof of its passage was its song on the app.