After we ate we went back to the gate area one more time. We looked again for the Lulu's Tody-tyrant, but only heard it. We packed up and headed down hill for the final time. We stopped a few times before getting to Afluentes. We finally got good looks at Bar-winged Woodwren, a much wanted bird that we had been trying for for several years. We saw a number of Swallow-tailed Kites again. I felt a little sad to be leaving this area. We stopped at a pull out and I picked out a bird that Martin was excited about despite its rather subdued appearance, a Drab Hemispingus, a type of tanager. We did see a pair of Lulu's Tody-tyrants nearby.
We arrived at Afluentes and immediately picked up a good mixed flock. The tanagers were thick. There were Golden, Flame-faced, Beryl-spangled, Saffron-crowned and Grass Green, all birds I have seen before, but love so much. Then Martin found a Blue-browed Tanager, which I wanted very much! Martin was on a bit of a roll. He spotted a flash of red and black. At first he thought it was a White-winged Tanager, which we had seen a few days before at this site. Then he realized it was one of his main targets, a Vermilion Tanager and it was a stonker, as he would say. A beautiful red, about the size of our Scarlet Tanager, but with a black mask similar to a Cardinal, this was a real looker. We ended up seeing four of them. Then Alex found a bird that trumped the tanager, at least as far as I was concerned, a Lanceolated Monklet! It perched for ages, giving good looks and crummy photos, well MY photos are crummy.
It was hard to leave, but we had a ways to go, so we took off, stopping at the chicken restaurant in Agua Verdes one more time. We had driven just a bit further when we saw a very long snake crossing the road. Snakes are almost as good as birds as far as I am concerned. (I wanted to be a herpatologist when I was a kid.) We backed up and stopped; then we jumped out of the car. The snake was crawling down a concrete drainage ditch, so we got great looks and a few photos. It was black with diagonal yellow stripes. Juan Jose said it was some kind of rat snake, and not venomous, which was a little disappointing. Martin had seen a large Coral Snake a couple of days previously, so I was wanting something a bit more dangerous.
We pressed on to Rioja. In the late afternoon we visited the forest at Yacumama again, where we had seen Point-tailed Palm-creeper on our previous visit. It was rather quiet, but we did add both Amazon and Green Kingfisher on the river, as well as Black-fronted Nunbird. A Tropial showed well on the other side of the river. As we were leaving I spotted a Capped Heron, a big favorite of mine, in one of the lagoons.
Photos for the day:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sngcanary/sets/72157624255335918/
Bird list for the day:
1 Great Egret
2 Cattle Egret
3 Striated Heron
4 Capped Heron
5 Black Vulture
6 Turkey Vulture
7 Swallow-tailed Kite
8 Roadside Hawk
9 White-throated Hawk
10 Rock Pigeon
11 Band-tailed Pigeon
12 Plumbeous Pigeon
13 Blue Ground-Dove
14 White-eyed Parakeet
15 Cobalt-winged Parakeet
16 Red-billed Parrot
17 Smooth-billed Ani
18 White-collared Swift
19 Fork-tailed Palm-Swift
20 White-bearded Hermit
21 Tawny-bellied Hermit
22 Sapphire-spangled Emerald
23 Speckled Hummingbird
24 Violet-fronted Brilliant
25 Chestnut-breasted Coronet
26 Collared Inca
27 Emerald-bellied Puffleg
28 Long-tailed Sylph
29 Masked Trogon
30 Amazon Kingfisher
31 Green Kingfisher
32 Lanceolated Monklet
33 Black-fronted Nunbird
34 Versicolored Barbet
35 White-throated Toucan
36 Lafresnaye's Piculet
37 Yellow-tufted Woodpecker
38 Little Woodpecker
39 Golden-olive Woodpecker
40 Pale-legged Hornero
41 Azara's Spinetail
42 Cinereous-breasted Spinetail
43 Ash-browed Spinetail
44 Streaked Tuftedcheek
45 Montane Foliage-gleaner
46 Plain Xenops
47 Buff-throated Woodcreeper
48 Montane Woodcreeper
49 Variable Antshrike
50 Rufous-vented Tapaculo- Heard
51 Southern Beardless-Tyrannulet
52 White-crested Elaenia
53 Inca Flycatcher
54 Marble-faced Bristle-Tyrant
55 Golden-faced Tyrannulet
56 Scale-crested Pygmy-Tyrant
57 Lulu's Tody-Flycatcher
58 Cinnamon Flycatcher
59 Rufous-tailed Tyrant
60 Dusky-capped Flycatcher
61 Great Kiskadee
62 Boat-billed Flycatcher
63 Social Flycatcher
64 Gray-capped Flycatcher
65 Tropical Kingbird
66 Barred Fruiteater
67 Barred Becard
68 Brown-capped Vireo
69 Rufous-browed Peppershrike
70 Blue-and-white Swallow
71 Southern Rough-winged Swallow
72 Thrush-like Wren
73 Gray-mantled Wren
74 House Wren
75 Bar-winged Wood-Wren
76 Gray-breasted Wood-Wren
77 White-capped Dipper
78 Andean Solitaire
79 Swainson's Thrush
80 White-eared Solitaire
81 Black-billed Thrush
82 Great Thrush
83 Slate-throated Redstart
84 Spectacled Redstart
85 Russet-crowned Warbler
86 Magpie Tanager
87 Rufous-crested Tanager
88 Black-capped Hemispingus
89 Oleaginous Hemispingus
90 Drab Hemispingus
91 Capped Conebill
92 Common Bush-Tanager
93 Blue-gray Tanager
94 Palm Tanager
95 Blue-capped Tanager
96 Vermilion Tanager
97 Blue-winged Mountain-Tanager
98 Grass-green Tanager
99 Golden Tanager
100 Saffron-crowned Tanager
101 Flame-faced Tanager
102 Blue-browed Tanager
103 Beryl-spangled Tanager
104 Blue-and-black Tanager
105 Silver-backed Tanager
106 Black-faced Dacnis
107 White-sided Flowerpiercer
108 Yellow-breasted Brush-Finch
109 Rufous-collared Sparrow
110 Giant Cowbird
111 Orange-backed Troupial
112 Yellow-rumped Cacique
113 Crested Oropendola
114 Golden-bellied Euphonia
115 Bronze-green Euphonia
116 White-vented Euphonia
117 Blue-naped Chlorophonia
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