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April
20th,
2018
Hot,
hazy and sunny day
Up
at 5:30 a.m. In order to spend a few hours exploring and counting all
birds seen to put a report onto eBirds later. A Golden-bellied
Grosbeak
is a bright starting bird for the day and with a resplendent male
Vermilion Flycatcher one can only appreciate the vibrant colours of
many Peruvian birds. Two Black-necked Woodpeckers are in the tall
Eucalyptus trees in the hotel gardens but despite hearing them with
their chattering call, I cannot get good views of them in the trees
and I watch both leave with undulating flights away onto the adjacent
orchards.
I
take the dusty road towards the Hydro-electric power station a
kilometre or so to the north. A new bird for both me and therefore
for the Green Birding list is a White-tipped
Dove.
Just one is sitting on the branch and I listen as it gives a two
note, deep coo. It's throat extends, emphasising the grey-blue head
of this rather large dove.
Through
a security gate with Holas to the guards and past the station, I take
the steep road up through the village. Passing over the river where a
dam has surging water, two Peruvian Sheartails are hovering and
chasing each other over the water. The road splits at the top of the
only street in the village; to the left the road goes to Callahuanca
and to the right to some ruins called Caskashoko. I turn right.
A
little way along the road the force of a flash flood here is
demonstrated by the side of a house having disappeared revealing a
now unused bathroom. Through a small village of around twenty shack
house with a few dogs I walk steadily in the strong and hot sunshine
and photograph five different butterfly species before reaching the
ruins. Interesting to note that most butterflies here have equivalent
species and families in Europe, be they skippers, whites, or blues.
The
ruins are contained over a small area at the end of the road and
consist of walls and a couple of small ruined houses. A few birds are
here, mostly Band-tailed
Sierra Finches and Collared Warbling Finches.
There are also a few Cinereous
Conebills
and an entertaining Purple-collared
Woodstar
that keeps returning to the top twig of a near by dead bush.
A couple
of attractive lizards are sunbathing and watch me carefully as I
pass. They don't seem too bothered by me though.
After
returning to the hotel for a snack and a quick shower, I walk along
the road and then back along the edge of the river plain. New birds
seen include seven White-crested
Eleanias,
Drab
Seedeaters,
a couple of Chiguanca
Thrushes
and a single Blue
& Yellow Tanager.
The
evening meal at the hotel is delicious; a pasta concoction that I am
not too sure of the contents. The staff here are delightful and my
waitress, Jessica, laughs as I clear the table on my conclusion.
Green
Year list : 104 birds average new birds to list per day : 5.20
birds
Distance
walked : 5.61 miles elevation up and down : 1468 feet altitude :
4445 feet
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