I was with Richard and David
on the final morning near the restaurant where we had agreed to meet and we had
just had good views of a Spectacled Owl when Yehudi appeared indicating that
the Fiery-billed Aracari were showing and so we raced back to the top end of
the garden hoping to see them. When we
got there they had moved but I picked one up near where we were looking and
eventually we saw two birds.
A walk along the same track
into the forest as yesterday produced a good close to the holiday. A party of Vaux’s Swifts passed overhead and
there were Pale-billed and Yellow-naped Woodpeckers and two Plain Xenops were
only the second sighting of the trip.
Yehudi then located a Black-faced Antthrush that was skulking on the
ground and was not easy to get a good view of in the dim light and as we
started to walk back we excellent views of a Great Timamou. We then didn’t see anything else of real note
until we were almost out of the forest when a Sulphur-rumped Flycatcher and
Northern Bentbill were found, which, were the last two new birds on the
trip. Other species seen during the
final morning were Turkey Vulture, American Black Vulture, Grey Hawk, eight
Scarlet Macaws, Streak-headed Woodcreeper, a Tropical Pewee, two Social
Flycatchers, a Grey-capped Flycatcher, a Rose-throated Becard, six
Clay-coloured Thrushes, two Brown Jays, a Northern Waterthrush, a Red-throated
Ant-tanger and Orange-billed Sparrow.
It had been a good two weeks
and I had recorded 363 species, four of which were heard only and off the 363,
232 were new. I suspect that the bad
weather experienced during the middle period could have cost us twenty to
thirty birds but there is little one can do about the weather.
The drive back to the airport
and flights back to the UK all went without a hitch and I caught and earlier
bus back to Leicester where I was met by wife and grandchildren.
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