tiggymalvern | Absent again

I'm off today for a few days, spending a long weekend with the mad birdwatchers, aka the Washington Ornithological Society annual conference. Which isn't a conference at all, just a series of trips out looking for birds with people who know what they're doing far better than I do! Weather permitting (and the forecast so far says it will permit) one of the days will be a boat trip thirty miles out to the edge of the continental shelf, looking for species that rarely come near land, like petrels and jaegers, and albatrosses! I've always wanted to see an albatross, they're such amazing birds, and at this time of year we should certainly see one and possibly two species ::fingers crossed::

We're staying at a hotel that we stayed at on the road trip, and though it claims to have wireless, in our previous experience the bandwidth was so overloaded that the google homepage took three attempts to load, and anything with pictures was completely out, so there may be little hope for LJ reading. I just hope I can get mail....

Those of you I owe fic comments to, I shall be taking them with me and trying to get them read in the evenings, so hopefully I'll be emailing you when I get back on Tuesday.