Day 8 - San Isidro

Day 8 - Guango Lodge and environs.

The morning began with a pre-breakfast stroll down to the river, along to the road and back to the Lodge. A session watching the feeders was then followed by a longer walk along the river and the oilpipe track. Another short session watching the feeders before leaving at 1510 for San Isidro.

The Torrent Ducks took some finding but eventually two were found just below the lodge where they should have been. The feeders produced loads of Tourmaline Sunangels and White-bellied Woodstars, a few Long-tailed Sylphs, four Sword-billed Hummingbirds, two Mountain Avocetbills, 12 or so Chestnut-breasted Coronets, three Mountain Velvet-breasts (with another on the river) with smaller numbers of Collared Inca, Buff-winged Starfrontlet, Tyrian Metaltails, Speckled hummingbird and a Buff-tailed Coronet.

Birds seen along the river included a Spotted Sandpiper, two Masked Trogons, four Torrent Tyrannulets, five White-capped Dippers, two Slaty-backed Chat-Tyrants, a Lacrimose Mountain-tanager, lots of Hooded Mountain-tanagers, a couple of Gray-hooded Bush-tanager and Black-eared Hemispingus, five Pearled Treerunners, Mountain Wren, Turquoise Jay, Canada Warbler, a Chestnut-capped and two Pale-naped Brush-finch and Northern Mountain Cacique.

 

A short diversion just north of San Isidro into some good cloud forest proved very productive with Golden-headed and Crested Trogons, Emerald Toucanet, Powerful Woodpecker, Shining Sunbeam, Long-tailed Sylph, Olive-sided Flycatcher, Inca Jay and Subtropical Casique.

 

An evening patrol of the San Isidro lodge produced a juvenile San Isidro Owl.