Urraca Lodge at Jorupe Lodge is excellent. Airy, assembled of native woods, and surrounded by lovely forest, it's simply a delight. Beautiful cabins. Unfortunately, our first night there was some kind of colossal June Bug hatch. Not the delicate June Bugs (Phyllophaga) in the Pacific Northwest; these were huge and the numbers beggared the imagination. Attracted by the cabin lights, a very large swarm blackened the screens and, more troubling for Nancy, crawled in under the crack under the door (although she was convinced they were raining down from the ceiling). Before too long we had several hundred June Bugs an inch long visting with us. Nancy found them . . . disturbing . . . and engaged in a frenzy of slightly hysterical bug-whacking. At the end of it all, there were still a couple of thousand bugs on the screens, a badly shredded and stained magazine and a small dune of squashed bugs in our cabin.

It was a one-time event, but a very impressive display of jungle fecundity.

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Black-cowled Saltator	Ecuadorian Trogon	Gray-cheeked Parrot
Highland Hepatic-Tanager	Long-billed Starthroat	Rufous-browed Peppershrike
Bird the Boonies and Ceiba	Tawny-crowned Pygmy-Tyrant	Highland Motmot