We awoke much like this Crab Eating Fox, with a sense that anything could happen and we just needed to go exploring. Bob's property is huge and we would spend the whole day looking for goodies. This place was so good I will need to split it into two, with the first post being all before the afternoon session.
These foxes are opportunistic and will take scraps as they can get them. They don't only eat crabs.
This Green-winged Saltator was feating on Jocote fruit. Bob and his family also had Suriname and I think Barbados Cherry trees which the birds love and I sampled.
Bullet Ant - Incidentally there is a song called "Oooh" by De La Soul featuring Redman where he says "If you've ever been shot or stabbed" but I always thought he was saying "If you've never been shot, its bad" which may seem obvious but that's how I feel about Bullet Ants. I will take people's word for it that it hurts a bunch, and I plan to avoid getting bit.
Red-billed Scythebill
Fulvous-crowned Scrub-tyrant - this picture is about as equally bad as the last one I got in Brazil. It seems they are adept at avoiding pictures.
Barred Antshrike female
Glittering-bellied Emerald
We spent quite a bit of time trying to lure a White-browed Antpitta out onto a narrow path but it didn't want to leave the dense thicket. However, we were able to get on it and it sat still for a long time allowing me to spray the area with pics and a few came out.
White-browed Antpitta - there were about 100 sticks in the way and you could only see it through a very narrow tunnel. Brazilian endemic!
Caatinga Antwren! Brazilian endemic.
Long-billed Wren - another Brazilian endemic!
Ochre-lored Flatbill - not an endemic but long overdue for a picture as I had seen these multiple times without coming away with anything.
Stripe-backed Antbird!! Although this is not technically an endemic, it is a subspecies of a highly disjunct population which is suspected to be split soon at which point it would be endemic to Brazil.
Great Xenops - yet another Brazilian endemic! Bob's property was turning out to be an endemic blitz.
I still have to iNat this beetle.
Spotted Piculet - you guessed it, Brazilian endemic.
Need I say it at this point? Brazilian endemic and a speciality bird at Bob's place.
Swallow-tailed Hummingbird - common and not endemic but they rarely sit still for pics.
Mouse-colored Tyrannulet - also fairly common over a large portion of South America.
Red-shouldered Spinetail - Booyah! Another endemic.
Black-bellied Antwren
Sooty-fronted Spinetail - another widespread bird which I cannot seem to get a decent photo of.
White-naped Xenopsaris - related to the becards but in its own genus.
Bahia Wagtail-tyrant! Brazilian endemic.
Fork-tailed Palm Swift
White Monjita from a great distance with heat shimmer, this species always seems to stay away.
White-browed Meadowlark
Grassland Yellow-finch
Burrowing Owl
It was getting really hot at this point so we headed back to Bob's for siesta. Of course I don't do siestas so I checked out the feeders and did some walking around in the hot sun.
Red-cowled Cardinal
Ultramarine Grosbeak
Ferruginous Pygmy-owl
Sayaca Tanager
Ruby-Topaz Hummingbird! I did not know it at the time that we would be getting retina-searing views of this species later so I was over the moon that I got this one on my own even if only in silhouette.
Flavescent Warbler
Tegu Lizard! This thing was huge!
Sayaca Tanager
Picui Dove
Glittering-bellied Emerald
Solitary Black Cacique - this guy was super cooperative for once.
Streaked Flycatcher
Shiny Cowbird
This was probably about 2 or 3 pm and it was still hot as hell but the rest of the group was stirring and we got ready for an afternoon walk across Bob's property. I will add that as another installment.
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