Day 9 - San Isidro 2

Day 9 San Isidro

All day spent around the San Isidro area including a couple of pitta feeding sessions, a drive through cloud forest along the Sierrazul road, a dusk trip out for Andean Potoo and a post dinner walk for San Isidro Owl. The first hour or so around the lodge lights was excellent and as usual the hummingbird feeders provided plenty of entertainment at various times during the day. Heavy rain during the mid afternoon period.

Birds seen included three Sickle-winged Guans, a Broad-winged Hawk, 14 Southern Lapwings, several flocks of White-capped Parrot (but not seen well), an adult Black-banded Owl with a presumed juvenile calling nearby, an Andean Potoo, two Green Violet-ears, lots of Sparkling Violet-ears, Speckled Hummingbirds, Long-tailed Sylphs, Bronzy and Collared Incas, ten Chestnut-breasted Coronets and Fawn-breasted Brilliants, Golden-headed and Crested Quetzals, a Masked Trogon, two Emerald Toucanets, a Crimson-mantled Woodpecker, five Pearled Treerunners, a Montane Foliage-gleaner, two Olive-backed and six Montane Woodcreepers, two Chestnut-crowned and one White-bellied Pittas, one Blackish Tapaculo, a Torrent Tyrannulet, a Streak-necked Flycatcher, three Rufous-crowned Tody-flycatchers, ten Cinnamon Flycatchers, a Fork-tailed Flycatcher, ten Pale-edged Flycatchers, two Andean Solitaires, two Glossy Black Thrush, Black-eared Hemispingus, Saffron-crowned and Flame-faced Tanagers, two Bluish Honeycreepers, a Black-and-white Warbler, five Canada Warblers, three Black-crested Warbler and Russet-backed Oropendulas.