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| On the outskirts of San Vincente |
Today we were transferring to the Santa Marta area of Colombia, but first we had some birding to do. We took the jeeps down the hill for a short while then stopped for some birding, once more in wellies, once again on hilly terrain. We worked our way gradually down to San Vicente where we drove into town to a local cafe for aripes and hot chocolate.
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| Landslide |
On the way we noted chestnut-winged chachalacas, brown violetear, double-banded greytail, tropical pewee, masked tityra, cinereous becard, yellow-browed shrike-vireo, white-lined tanager, white-eared conebill, white-sided flowerpiercer, thick-billed seed-finch, black-and-white warbler (looking just like a humbug), yellow-rumped cacique, carib grackle, golden-rumped euphonia and a decidedly handsome white-vented euphonia, very scarce in this part of Colombia.
Then we continued for a further 3 hours back to the main road where we had a picnic lunch under the cover of a petrol station, here we also changed from our wellies as we had to fly to Bogota and then Santa Marta.
Bearing in mind that we left the lodge at 5.30 am, and after two flights arrived at the hotel for the night at 10pm, we were all shattered, but our alarms were set for a 5 am departure yet again tomorrow.
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