Day 14 - Perico, Colombia and the journey home . . .

After a disturbed night in Riohacha with the locals enjoying a night of drink fireworks and loud music.

Glaucous Tanager

Not surprisingly, we were up early and back to the wet and muddy desert.   After one abortive attempt to park the minibus in a local village (it was a festival and even at 5 in the morning we were causing a stir) where we lost a mudguard (much to our new drivers disdain), we move along the road and after donning our wellies we were off looking for the final birds of our trip.

Nacunda nighthawk greeted us as we walked across a playing field.  Green rumped parrotlet perched in a nearby tree, ferruginous pygmy owl called close by and was finally seen.   My final puffbird -russet throated, sat obligingly in the undergrowth of a large spreading tree, and chestnut piculet completed the set.  

Buff-breasted wren, scrub green let, glaucous tanager, grayish saltator, orinocan saltator, grey seedeater, great tailed grackle and Trinidad euphonia completed our trip.

Downtown Riohacha

From the bus in the way to the airport we also saw Magnificent frigatebird.

The flight from Riohacha took us to Bogota, and then we made the flight to Madrid and connection to Heathrow, it all went without incident and everyone and their luggage made it through on time.

A great trip, thoroughly recommended.   For more photos see my Flickr. feed above.