tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66923769564065668902024-03-05T06:01:04.358-08:00East Slope of the Andes, Ecuador 3/8-17/2016Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6692376956406566890.post-76154945304246063182016-03-31T12:50:00.000-07:002016-04-07T03:06:18.075-07:00Day 10, Papallactas Pass, 3/17/16It was raining as I said my goodbye to Angel and and his staff and I took off in my little rental car. My flight home was not until late so I had plenty of birding time. I found a good place with habitat above the town of Papallacta but the rain would not let up. A pair of Great Thrushes investigated my pishes from the car.<br />
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After an hour of waiting I gave up and drove on up to Papallacta Pass and took the rocky road that parallels the highway. Several Stout-billed Cinclodes braved the rain and I got a shot through the windshield.<br />
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Found a couple of Plumbeous Sierra-Finches. The female is the streaked one.</div>
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Here's a Glossy Flowerpiercer. The similar Black Flowerpiercer lacks the pale shoulders. I saw both in small uncooperative flockes.</div>
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I watched a bank of tubular flowers that are the favorite of the Sword-billed Hummingbird. A large dark hummer with white tail tips nectared on the hill above. It had be be Rainbow-bearded Thornbill by the tail, a species I've seen before. Here's the flowers without a hummer.</div>
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Finally I saw a White-throated Tyrannulet, one of the most common birds of the high Andes. I saw many on my previous two trips.</div>
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I had hope this large tyrant flycatcher with lots of white in the tail would be the rare White-tailed Shrike-Tyrant. But pale eyes mean it's the common Black-billed Shrike-Tyrant.<br />
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My first lifer on the trip was a Red-crested Cotinga ten days ago. Another one came to say goodbye to me.</div>
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My last bird of the trip was a common Black-chested Buzzard-Eagle.</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6692376956406566890.post-14888329736570653222016-03-31T11:58:00.000-07:002016-03-31T12:57:19.362-07:00Day 9, Cueva de Tayos, 3/16/16Another nice breakfast at the <a href="http://www.rioquijosecolodge.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Rio Quijos Ecolodge</span></a> and I was out on the trails. There were the usual Black-burnian and Canada Warblers and Swainson's Thrushes. Then I found an olive woodcreeper with a very straight bill. The color reminded me of the Spotted Woodcreeper from the cloud foreset of Mexico. In fact it was a close relative, the Olive-backed Woodcreeper which replaces Spotted Woodcreeper on the eastern slope of the Andes.<br />
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I ran into a mixed flock with some tanagers and this Montane Foliage-gleaner.</div>
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and Golden-eared Tanager among others. But getting photographs was difficult.</div>
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I was supposed to meet Angel at noon for our trip to the Oilbird cave but he had a guest who he had invited to lunch. The man's name was Pedro and apparently he is a influential local oilman. In Spanish he made a point to tell me it was beneficial for the United States to keep the unrest going in the Middle East to help get the oil prices back up. I told him he was probably right and ate lunch. As he was leaving I spotted a new hummer in the yard, a Collared Inca. This is a common species at Guango and Cabanas San Isidro but was the first I had seen here.</div>
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So now Angel and I were ready to head for Cueva de Tayos. "Tayos" are what the locals call Oilbirds. Ridgley and Greenfield uses "Guacharos" in Birds of Ecuador but Angel was not familiar with that name. Angel drives like all Ecuadoreans who apparently attend the Mario Andretti driver's ed class. I held on as we sped around the corners and past collapsed portions of the road and minor landslides for the 22 km to Cuevas de Tayos. There is a small restaurant at the trailhead where I guess you are supposed to pay a fee but no one was there. As we made our way down a steep wet trail, we flushed a couple of dark birds that were probably antbirds but I could not get my glasses on them. We reached the bottom and had to wade a small fast flowing steam to the cave. A female Andean Cock-of-the-rock flushed on the other side but I did not get much of a shot.</div>
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The oilbird cave was a perhaps fifty yards long tunnel with a tall ceiling. I could not tell if the stream had carved its way through creating the tunnel or perhaps a collapse of the hillside had closed the top. But it was a magnificent setting.</div>
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Angel pointed out some Oilbirds. I was surprised by how large they were, nearly two feet long These birds emerge at night searching for fruit by using echo location. Apparently the young grow quite fat on the diet of fruit and at one time were harvested as a source of fuel oil.</div>
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It was difficult to tell how many birds were in the cave but I am guessing over a hundred. Dozens flew screaming over our heads and many were perched on the walls high above us. I was a little worried about disturbing the birds but I guess people have been bothering them here for centuries. They started calming down after a while. Here's an iPhone video.</div>
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Yours truly enjoying the sights and sounds.</div>
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I was huffing and puffing as we make the hike back up the steep trail. Back at the lodge it was another fine dinner. I was the only customer. Angel's son Joel drove in from Quito and I learned that he would like to be a bird guide. We spent hours that night talking about birding and how to market the Rio Quijos Ecolodge as a birding lodge. They have the field guide, a pair of binocs and a great location so all they just need to do is put in the work and learn the birds. For some reason the lodges I visited on this side of the Andes (Guango, Cabanas San Isidros and Wildsumaco) do not feed the tanagers. I suggested they experiment with this because they really do have some nice tanagers around. I also showed them eBird and Xeno-canto. All of this was done in my poor Spanish and I was mentally exhausted afterwards.</div>
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This was to be a day of quality birds and not quantity. My first one was a goody. I saw a large woodpecker and as I expected, it was a Powerful Woodpecker. I had seen this species once before when a buddy and I birded the cloud forest of the Gualaceo-Macas Road back in 1994. And it also happened to be the third member of the genus Campephilus for this trip (Crimson-crested, Crimson-bellied and Powerful). I had my iso turned up so I was able to get a poor shot despite the conditions.<br />
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Then I got a real good one. A small antpitta hopped from the trail in front of me and I only managed a couple of shots. But it was enough for the ID, Slaty-crowned Antpitta. Their three note call was heard all day long. I recorded the call on my phone and played it back. They came in close but I never saw another one.</div>
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The Guacamayos Ridge Trail is supposed to be great for tanager flocks among other things. I encountered only a couple of flocks and all I could make out was Yellow-throated Bush-Tanagers. Occasionally a pair of Gray-breasted Wood-Wrens would sing as they do in the cloud forests of Mexico but I never saw them. Despite the rain and fog it was absolutely beautiful.</div>
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After about two kilometers I came across a large bird standing in the trail. I raised the camera and fired. I got several shots and then the bird disappeared around the corner. I could tell it was a quail-dove but that was about it. Later at the lodge I identified it as a White-throated Quail-Dove. Apparently this is a fairly common bird but not commonly seen.</div>
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I walked to the first stream after the 3 KM marker and it was after 1 PM so I decided I needed to start wandering back. Then one last good bird for the day. At first I thought it was just a Great Thrush. But closer analysis of the photo shows this bird has a reddish belly. It is the rare Chestnut-bellied Thrush.</div>
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By the time I got back to the car it was raining extremely hard. I had spent seven hours on the Guacamayos Ridge Trail and had seen eight species of birds. I got back to the Rio Quijos exhausted and soaked. Tomorrow it's the Cuevas de Tayos (Oilbird Cave).</div>
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I heard a repeated hoarse yelping that I thought might be a toucan. Sure enough it was a Black-mandibled Toucan, a lifer and my only seen toucan of the trip. I don't know why things were so difficult this trip. I've never had trouble seeing toucans in the past. </div>
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Then I heard the loud drumming of a large woodpecker. Maybe my best bird of the trip, it was the very hard to find Crimson-bellied Woodpecker. What a bird!</div>
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The Turkish birders had been shown a Band-bellied Owl by their guide somewhere the previous day and not being much of an owler (I go to bed when it gets dark) I didn't pay much attention. But before I left this morning, one of the local guides told me in Spanish to look for something high in the bamboo. Problem was I didn't understand what I was to look for. But when I came to a large patch of bamboo, I remembered I was supposed to be looking for something. And, holy smokes, I found two Band-bellied Owls roosting high in the bamboo.</div>
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I sat there and enjoyed the birds in the distance. Ornate Flycatcher is usually easy to see but once again this was my only one of the trip.</div>
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Back on the trail I found my only manakin of the trip, White-crowned Manakin.</div>
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So far I've refrained from posting any butterfly photos. I've seen a few on this trip but not as many as expected. This one was a doozy!</div>
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Saw both Wedge-billed and Olivaceous Woodcreepers and then a lifer tanager, Orange-eared.</div>
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At this point I was still playing with the idea of going south to Tena, but I thought I needed to get back north while the roads were still passable. I checked out of Wildsumaco and drove back west. I thought this raptor was going to be some good forest-falcon but it's just a Roadside Hawk. They really look different down here.</div>
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And this Collared Trogon which I have seen many times.</div>
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Then I packed up my camera, binocs and umbrella and was off to the FACE trail. Wintering nearctic birds were common and included pewees that looked like Western Wood-Pewee to me, Summer and Scarlet Tanagers, Swainson's Thrush, and Blackburnian and Canada Warblers. As I reached the trailhead the rain started to increase. And increase. And increase. It was pouring. I put up my umbrella and just stood there for two and half hours waiting for a break. It finally let up a bit and I made it back to the lodge. Caroline made a fire and I dried out a bit. Wandering around the lodge I found a new hummer for my list, the tiny Blue-headed Hummingbird. I only saw it at porter weeds and never got a good photo.</div>
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A flock outside the lodge had more Blackburnians, my first Cerulean Warbler for the trip and this lifer Slaty-capped Flycatcher.</div>
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Everyone was getting wet! At this point I have to say I was really pleased with the performance of my camera. It was cloudy, wet and I was shooting at very slow speeds and still getting reasonably good images. The Canon 7D Mark II along with the Canon 100-400 IS II is a killer birding combo.</div>
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It was hard to get a good photo of the Scarlet-headed Barbet in the fog and rain. I had to do some editing to get anything out of this male.</div>
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A little last birding before dinner. Golden-tailed Sapphire at the feeders.</div>
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I returned to the car and was approached by a man wanting me to sign in at the visitor's cabin. He didn't ask for a fee. He told me he had heard toucans but it was getting foggy and I could not hear or see anything from the overlook. I later found out on eBird that a pair of Turkish birders along with their guide had seen 44 species on the same trail that morning. Hiring a guide with recordings definitely helps you see more stuff.</div>
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It was after 10 AM by the time I reached Narupo and the start of the Loreto Road. I had copied pages from Birding in Ecuador online about the first 15 km and was excited to find some good stuff. But all of the former rock quarry pull offs had humble houses on them and people trying to scratch out a living. As with other highways it was difficult to find a safe place to pull off the road. I saw a few things and got the Cliff Flycatchers at the expected site.</div>
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At this point I needed to make a decision. Should I go on south toTena and Misahualli as originally planned or take a chance and go over to Wildsumaco which was only 35 km away. Since I had been to Tena and Misahualli back in 1992 and I had missed a lot of birds at the mid level elevations on this trip I chose Wildsumaco. On the rough rocky road into the lodge I found a family group of Smooth-billed Anis acting like....uhm....anis. </div>
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I pulled into the very nice <a href="http://www.wildsumaco.com/html/sumacobirdinglodge.php" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Wildsumaco Lodge</span></a> and walked into the main restaurant area and was met by the manager, Carolina. I asked her how much it would cost for a poor birder to stay the night, thinking that my max would be $150, and after consulting one of the owners on the phone, she said "$150 which includes three meals and taxes." This is actually a little less than the price on the website so I thought it was a pretty good deal. I think they were happy to have me as there were only two other birders at the lodge. As it turned out, the room was very comfortable, the food was fantastic and the birding would have been great if the weather had cooperated more. Here's the view from the restaurant/lounge area.</div>
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At the end of a the trail was a small clearing next to a thicket, much like the one at Guango Lodge, where a Plain-backed Antpitta was coming to take worms. A little later I was joined by one of the Wildsumaco guides who place a few earthworms and grubs in the opening and proceeded to imitate the whistled call of the bird. The first taker looked familiar. It was a the South American White-necked Thrush, a species that was split from our more familiar White-throated Thrush. </div>
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So after another good breakfast I made the run up hill to the south to Cabanas San Isidro. On the way just south of Baeza, I passed the a road with an arrow pointing to the town of Borja and looking like it passed through good habitat. Unfortunately I had forgotten that was a hot spot on eBird and I failed to bird it on my trip. Guess I'll have to go back. I arrived at Cabanas San Isidro at 8:20 found there were plenty of hummingbird feeders around the attractive cabins. Later in the trip other birders told me the cabins were pretty plain but they looked nice to me. It didn't take long to find a new bird for the trip, Long-tailed Sylph.<br />
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Well, then it got boring. I walked a beautiful mile long trail through outstanding old growth cloud forest and saw precious little. High above me I could make out Slate-throated Redstarts and Black-burnian Warblers and and occasional furnarid. There was an ever present vireo like song that I could never pin down. The trail came into an opening and I got my only Streak-necked Flycatcher for the trip. Olive-striped Flycatcher is very similar but I think the unstreaked belly makes this a Streak-necked.</div>
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After finding little in the refuge I drove and walked the entrance road and saw a few butterflies but not much else. Russet-backed Oropendola was in the area but they were pretty much everywhere else also.</div>
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So either I'm not a very good birder or it has something to do with the season. Cabanas San Isidro and the Cosanga area annually have one of the highest Christmas Bird Count totals in the world and I could not break 20 species for the day. This period in March is proving to be a bit wet and cool with little blooming or fruiting. So that will be my excuse.</div>
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After five hours of birding Cabanas San Isidro I decided to run up to <a href="http://birdsinecuador.com/en/chapter-4/item/59-427-guacamayos-ridge" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Guacamayos Ridge</span></a> which is only about 15 minutes to the south. Here at the mountain pass is a parking area with a shrine and an ancient Inca trail that runs for miles through the cloud forest of the Antisana Ecological Preserve. There is a cabin at the trailhead where you sign in and pay a fee. No one was there when I arrived in the afternoon and the fog and rain was starting to roll in. The overlook normally allows to a great view of the cloud forest and possible Gray-breasted Mountain-Toucans but all I saw was the common Great Thrush.</div>
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Yesterday I had driven down the kilometer long lane that leads to the lodge and thought that this road needed further investigation. My first birds of the morning were a bit of a disappointment, wintering Blackburnian and Canada Warblers and Swainson's Thrushes. These turned out to be some of the most common birds of the area. But then a good one popped up, Highland Motmot. Here it is with a separate shot of its motmot tail.<br />
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Further down the road I heard a familiar sound, Green Jays. Well though they sound like Green Jays, they were actually a close relative, Inca Jays. This striking species was chosen to be the symbol for the lodge.<br />
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As I followed the lane uphill, the habitat changed from second growth forest to pastures, Birds included common Russet-backed Oropendolas, Blue-necked Tanagers, Tropical Kingbirds, Rufous-collared Sparrows, Smooth-billed Anis and more Inca Jays. I walked back downhill to explore some trails and found a Myiarchus Flycatcher. I wasn't sure what it was, maybe just a Dusky-capped. But after some study I discovered it was a Pale-edged Flycatcher because of the pale edges of the outer rectrices and the concolor crown, nape and back.</div>
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And then a neat little Lafresnay's Piculet. It's little head was a blur as it drilled on a twig for insects.</div>
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Finally I found a good diverse flock of tanagers that included Summer, Black-capped, Saffron-crowned, Blue-necked, Golden and Golden-eared Tanagers, Orange-bellied Euphonia and Black-billed Thrushes. Unfortunately they were high and difficult to photograph. Here's a Golden Tanager with a surprise Golden-olive Woodpecker in the background.</div>
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Finally I got Booted Racket-tail for my life list. The east Andean slope birds have buffy orange boots while the west slope birds have white boots. What a little gem!</div>
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Walking the trail that follows along the band of trees along the river produced some nice birds. Spectacled Redstarts were common.</div>
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A mixed flock turned up a Montane Woodcreeper, White-banded Tyrannulet, Blue-backed Conebill, lots of Gray-hooded Bush-tanagers, Spectacled Redstarts and a Mountain Cacique. Here's the Montane Woodcreeper.</div>
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And a poor shot of the White-banded Tyrannulet. Having a camera really helps with the ID of the tyrannulets and flycatchers which are probably the most confusing group down there.</div>
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Not noticed at the time of the photograph, the above photo before cropping held another bird. A fuzzy Rufous-fronted Flycatcher. Should I count it? You bet I will.</div>
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There was a beautiful trail across the highway that snaked along high above the road surface. It provided great views and excellent habitat but few birds. I heard a Chestnut-crowned Antpitta and whistled it in close but I could never get it in view. The only birds I saw were a couple of Russet-crowned Warblers and a Pale-naped Brush-Finch. Waterfalls like this one on the opposite slope are a common sight in Ecuador.</div>
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After returning to the lodge I spent some more time with the hummers. Here's a male White-bellied Woodstar.</div>
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At the same group of feeders was a sunny spot on the ground that was enjoyed by both a female Tourmaline Sunangel and a Chestnut-breasted Coronet. Feels good after all that gloomy weather!</div>
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Well, it was checkout time and I decided I needed to watch my pocket book so I packed up and headed on down the road. Online I had found an interesting looking lodge on the Quijos River near Baeza called the <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.rioquijosecolodge.com/"><span style="color: red;">Rio Quijos Ecolodge</span>.</a></span> I pulled in later in the afternoon, unannounced, and was warmly welcomed by Angel the manager. Turned out there was a birding couple from California who were using the lodge as a base to explore the area. At $29 a night and very comfortable it sounded like a good plan. I think set meals were five dollars each. The lodge is owned by people who frequently bring groups of whitewater kayakers to the Rio Quijos. They didn't like the facilities in the area so they built their own lodge.</div>
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Back behind the lodge is the raging Quijos River. Angel told me he often sees Fasciated Tiger-Heron, Sunbittern and Torrent Duck on the rocks. I managed a distant Torrent Duck, Torrent Tyrannulet, Spotted Sandpipers and a Neotropic Cormorant.</div>
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Angel keeps a half dozen hummingbird feeders up and they were well used. Of special interest to birders visiting the area were at least half dozen White-tailed Hillstars who rule the feeders. Few lodges in the area regularly attract this species.</div>
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I was hoping to eat with the visiting birders from California but they had a previous commitment. However I was joined at dinner by Matt, an American expat who is a rafting guide in Tena; Mark, another American expat and environmentalist who owns a 1000 hectare reserve up the road and Camila, a young college biology student from Florida. We had some good discussion of nature in the area and politics over some beer and good food. I had read about <span style="color: cyan;"><a href="http://birdingecuador.blogspot.com/2010/08/alto-coca-january-26-27-2013.html">Mark's reserve in a blog called Birding Ecuador</a></span> and was surprised to get to meet him.</div>
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I arrived at the Quito airport at midnight and found a taxi to the not to far away Hostal Colibri. It only cost $25 and that was about what it was worth. The room was damp, the bed was hard and the blanket smelled a little of vomit. But it was quiet, close to the airport and the area was birdy the next morning. First bird of the day singing outside was the omnipresent Rufous-collared Sparrow.<br />
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The new Quito airport is east of the city near Tarabela and in an area that is still a bit rural. So walking around the hostal I was able to find several species of the dry high intermontane valley habitat that I did not see elsewhere on my trip, like this Southern Yellow Grosbeak.</div>
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And Blue-and-yellow Tanager in a eucalyptus tree.</div>
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One thing about Quito is the elevation is about 9000 feet so it doesn't take a lot of driving to get the the high paramo country. Unfortunately, the beautiful morning turned to rain as I climbed higher. The new highway over the mountains get you up there in a hurry but there is no way to get off of the pavement and do some birding. Fortunately I had printed off some pages from the excellent online <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://birdsinecuador.com/en/">"Where to Find Birds in Ecuador"</a> </span>and I was able to find a good birding road near the pass at about 13,000 feet. With the steady rain I did not see a lot but I did find a bird I had missed in a couple of previous trips, Red-crested Cotinga.</div>
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Who can resist the Scarlet-bellied Mountain-Tanager? Turned out to be my only mountain-tanager of the trip.</div>
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The rain would not let up as the rough dirt track I followed paralleled the highway back downhill towards Quito. Though I had seen a few nice birds, I was disappointed with the start of the trip. Finally got a Black-tailed Trainbearer in bad light.</div>
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The road led back to the highway so I drove back up to the pass again and down the other side to the town of Papallacta and its famous thermal baths. It was cold and rainy and I needed to find a place to spend the night. I had seen La Choza de Don Wilson online but it looked empty so I moved on. Turns out it may have been a good place to stay as I discovered on return at the end of my trip that there was good habitat above the resort. I knew the <a href="http://www.guangolodge.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Guango Lodge</span></a> was was just a few clicks down the road and though a bit expensive, I knew they had some good birds around. Luckily they had only a couple of guests and were quite happy to put me up for $135 a day which included three meals and taxes.</div>
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As the light faded I managed to pick up a few lifers at their excellent hummingbird feeding area. Chestnut-breasted Coronets were the bosses of the feeders.</div>
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They had more than a few battles with their fellow congener, the Buff-tailed Coronet.</div>
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The female Tourmaline Sunangel was quite different from the male.</div>
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A late afternoon walk down to the Guango River after the rain had stopped turned up a flock of Turquoise Jays.</div>
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I managed only a couple of shots at this guan. I didn't know what it was till I got home and lightened up the photo. Turns out it's an Andean Guan. Thank goodness for digital photography.</div>
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With the light gone It was time for dinner. The pretentious meal was really mediocre but the bed was comfortable and the shower was hot. Antpitta feeding time is in the morning. Can't wait!</div>
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