Our full day at El Dorado and we took the jeeps up to the San Lorenzo Ridge at 2800 m.
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| The view from the San Lorenzo Ridge |
The mist and clouds swirled around us and made birding a little challenging, but we still managed to add the following - several being new birds for my life list - Santa Marta Parakeet, red-billed parrot, scaly-naped parrot, brown-rumped tapaculo, olive-striped flycatcher, black-throated tody-tyrant, Santa Marta bush-tyrant, yellow-bellied chat-tyrant, Santa Marta mountain-tanager, black flowerpiercer, golden-bellied grosbeak, yellow-crowned whitestart and Santa Marta warbler.
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| Misty forest |
Soon it was time to go back to the lodge for lunch and a quick siesta before we moved on to birding just outside the lodge on the road. White-tipped quetzal, santa-marta woodstar, emerald toucanet, rusty-headed spinetail, blue-capped tanager and yellow-crowned whitestart joining our ever-increasing tour list.
We had an appointment back at the lodge at 5 pm wgeb a member of staff was due to put out food for santa marta antpitta. Despite our waiting for about half an hour the bird did not show. We had great views and sounds of black-chested jay.
Not to be outdone, we decided that a quick try for some night birding might be in order before dinner, and with Santa Marta screech-owl calling, we stood in the dark forest with the tape playing. Unfortunately the fates were against us yet again, and as the rain started to fall mottled owl called (thus preventing any other owls responding as it frightens all others away). A few of us tried a second site, but again we unsuccessful. Maybe tomorrow . . .
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