Our second full day started out in the same area as our first, as we were still trying to bag Sherry's wishlist bird the Collared Crescentchest and also clean up some other scrub forest denizens. This time I remembered to take a landscape photo with my iPhone. Check out this endless dirt road leading through the scrub. Looks like something out of the Australian outback.
Red-crested Finch was the first bird of the day.
Curl-crested Jays were a nice pickup.
Lesser Elaenia - somewhat unremarkable and very similar to other Elaenias.
Horned Sungem - we continued our streak of female type hummers.
White-banded Tanager
Blue-black Grassquit
Rusty-backed Antwren
Black-faced Tanager
White-eyed Parakeet
Barred Antshrike
We then had a nice flock that passed through consisting of a couple tanagers that probably were just passing through on migration.
Burnished-buff Tanager
Cinnamon Tanager
Black-faced Tanager
This Rufous-winged Antshrike was a beauty!
We tried hard for the Crescentchest but failed miserably. We had to move on... Next stop was atop a windy plateau to look for the eye-popping Blue Finch.
This Scaled Pigeon was perched in a tree in the distance but I was pleased how decent the pics came out despite being heavily cropped.
It took a long time to find the finch but it eventually popped out on a post for us..
Blue Finch
We moved a little down the road to try for a couple more specialty birds and visited the geographic center of South America.
The scenery was gorgeous here, looking down into the Pantanal from the high plateau of Chapada.
A two for one shot of a Cliff Flycatcher and a Southern Rough-winged Swallow.
Cliff Flycatcher
Gretchen and I standing on the center of South America.
The jaguars were calling us to our next destination so we went back to the Pousada to clean up and check out. I managed to step away and get some more yard birds.
Variable Oriole
Helmeted Manakin in the Pousada back yard!
I had a couple more items to pack and while I was doing it, Gretchen crushed one of my wishlist birds right at the Pousada Feeder, the Saffron-billed Sparrow. Here is a pic from eBird so you can see what I missed. It still hurts...
They had to tear me away from the Pousada so we could begin our southward move down the Transpantaneira, the dirt road that leads into the heart of the Pantanal.
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