Monday, March 25, 2019

Ecuador, December 6, Rio Silanche

December 6 gave us the canopy tower experience.  We were up in the air with the birds.  I don't know how the builders knew the birds would stick around after the tower was built, but they did.  We had a packed breakfast with us and were planning to eat it while leisurely watching a bird flit by.  Instead, the birds came too quickly for more than a bite now and then.  It was great.  118 species of birds in the day, 52 were new trip birds, and 30 were lifers.

Orange-fronted Barbet.  A pair of these stayed around a long time.  Perhaps we looked as strange to them as they did to us.
 The Guayaquil Woodpecker with a beautiful red head.
A stunning Black-faced Dacnis.
A Golden-bellied Warbler.
A White-tailed Trogon.
The rather strange looking Masked Tityra.
A Yellow-throated Toucan


1 comment:

Linda Loken said...

Thank you for posting! I was thinking as I clicked the link that maybe I needed to beg for more birds! Well, there can always be more birds... 30 life birds that day and only these few pictures?? Sad, I call it!