I can't remember when they served breakfast at Ukuku, but it was awesome. Scrambled eggs with fresh oregano from the garden, home made pastries, local coffee and some hot chocolate. However, I knew our time was limited so I scarfed what they served and continued to snap away at the awesome photo ops.
Palm Tanager
Golden Tanager
Bay-headed Tanager
And here are some of the birds that didn't come to feeders but visited the nearby forest at the edges of Ukuku.
Montane Woodcreeper
Squirrel Cuckoo
Olivaceous Piculet
Common Tody-Flycatcher
Slaty Spinetail
Brown-capped Vireo
Blue-gray Tanager
Buff-tailed Coronet
Long-tailed Sylph
Orange-bellied Euphonia - this one has a purple throat which is a subtle difference from the Thick-billed if you are not paying attention to the details. We only had a couple of these.
Long-tailed Sylph - the ones with shorter tails are almost more stunning because the tail is thick and the blue sticks out more.
Streaked Saltator
I found an Elaenia high up in the canopy that was a candidate for Small-billed Elaenia but the guides were not able to pin in down to a definite ID.
Any experts want to try?
Montane Foliage-gleaners are very tricky to see well due to the skulking behavior, so most shots are through leaves and not in focus.
Black-and-white Seedeater
Tolima Blossomcrown
Streaked Saltator
Golden Tanager - I know I have posted too many of the same species, but just look at those colors and patterns! Amazing birds....
Bronzy Inca
Black-billed Thrush
Bay-headed Tanager - what the F..... Such an eye-popping bird.
Green Hermit - they rarely visit feeders or if they do its a quick visit so be ready!.
White-booted Racket-tail - what an amazing little bird! They are very small which I didn't expect. For some reason I had it in my mind that they wer
e large. Maybe because of all the larger than life photos out there on the interwebs.
Lunch time at Ukuku! Trout, Chicken and Ajiaco!
The proprietor, cook and ambassador of Ukuku.
Although lunch was delicious, I scarfed it down and headed back out. I wanted to maximize every minute at this magical place.
Unidentified butterfly that will go on iNat.
Storm clouds started brewing so we had high-tail it down the trail again as we didn't want to get stuck and it was a good mile back to the van.
We were just scanning the river about half way down looking for Torrent Ducks and Torrent Tyrannulets but it started to rain. This Bare-faced Ibis was the last bird for the list before the skies opened up and we ran the last couple hundred yards back. I got soaked but its all good when you have that many birds under your belt and it was only 1:30pm.
We did hit up a place in town for the afternoon, but I will cover that in the next post.
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