Another rainy start but it improved after breakfast to an
occasional light drizzle so we walked up the road looking for bird flocks.
Across the river was a pair of Slaty-backed Chat-Tyrant while the first flock
we encountered contained Silvery and Blue-and-Black Tanagers and White-banded
Tyrannulet.
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| Slaty-backed Chat-Tyrant |
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| Cinnamon Flycatcher |
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| Golden-rumped Euphonia |
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| Hillside |
Further stops produced a Purple-throated Sunangel - you have to admit that hummingbirds do have the best names: Sunangel, Woodnymph, Starfrontlet, Trainbearer, Fairy, Hermit, Sylph, Comet, Sunbeam, etc, they’re just Brilliant. Oh, and that’s another one.
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| Grey-breasted Mountain-Toucan |
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| Streaked Tufted-cheek |
We continued our quest of seeing more birds with
double-barrelled names, adding Slaty-backed Nightingale-Thrush, Grey-breasted
Mountain-Toucan and Streaked Tufted-cheek to the list. The last two are also
pretty smart looking too with the latter bird really puffing out its cheeks to
show why it’s so named. We climbed to around 2,800 metres so it felt fairly
cold at the top when we got out for a walk where we saw a pair of Yellow-billed
Teal and a group of Andean Flickers.
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| river at 2,800 metres |
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| Yellow-billed Teal |
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| Torrent Duck |
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| White-capped Dipper |
On the way down we still saw plenty of new birds including more Torrent Ducks and another White-capped Dipper on the river, plus three White-collared Jays, our third species of Jay during the trip and
two flyover Andean Condors.
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| White-collared Jay |
We stopped at a lodge for lunch while watching the
hummingbird feeders and then had a wander around the grounds, finally getting a
good look at a Rainbow Starfrontlet.
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| Rainbow Starfrontlet |
We visited another road in the afternoon, adding
Black-crested Warbler, Rusty Flowerpiercer and Green-tailed Trainbearer before
re-trying the lower slopes of the road where we’d been in the morning. Our
driver located two more Condors perched up on the hillside and we finished the
day with a fly-catching Sword-billed Hummingbird.
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| Sword-billed Hummingbird |
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