WEATHER - A CLOUDY START WITH SUNNY SPELLS FOR THE REST OF THE DAY - VERY WARM
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| PART OF THE HAMMOCK CAMP AT THE BURRO BURRO RIVER |
We were up at 5am all set for the boat trip, the plan was to
row upriver for an hour and drift back to the camp. Our main hope was see a
Giant River Otter or two and lots of river birds. It in fact was a little disappointing
as the bird life wasn’t that prolific and the otter forget to turn up!
Nevertheless we had a great experience as we rowed upriver traversing the
fallen-tree snags and rocks. We found several kingfishers and many of the
delightful White-banded Swallows. We also had good views of White-tailed
Trojan, Painted Parakeet, Blue-tailed Emerald, White-flanked Antwren and of
course lots more species.
Generally the river area was
quiet and our sightings were quite a lot lower than usual, so after another
delicious breakfast we set off for a second forest walk hoping to improve on the
list. But after about an hour we realised that there weren’t many birds about
so we abandoned the walk and returned to camp where we relaxed over a very long
lunch. A few sightings were made by a couple of the group during lunch break,
these included Epaulet Oriole, Pectoral Sparrow and Ochre-breasted Flycatcher.
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| A STRANGE FUNGUS THAT ATTRACTED HUNDREDS OF TINY WASPS AND FLIES |
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| RED-FOOTED TORTOISE |
Finally we spent another 3 hours
walking back to the lodge through the forest, it was a little better and a few
species turned up. A very drab looking Grayish Mourner showed well, also a
Black Nunbird appeared, then we had great views of our 6th
woodpecker, it was a Yellow-throated Woodpecker. A brief view of a
Grey-breasted Sabrewing was followed by a Black-eared Fairy, this pretty little
hummer was bathing in a stream by hovering and dipping into the water.
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| LOOKING FOR DIVINE INTERVENTION? |
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| ONE OF THE GREY WINGED TRUMPETERS THAT OUR GUIDE CALLED TO US - IT WAS AMAZING HOW CLOSE THEY CAME. |
The final part of the walk was
across open fields and as we approached the lodge area we found two new species
for our list, a Scaled Pigeon was found perched at the top of a tree and a
Wedge-tailed Grassquit was seen in the grass of course!
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