birdwatching trip report - Ecuador - surfbirds.com
, but we did see another
Amazonian Umbrellabird.
Boarding the bus for the trip to Lago Agrio it was only three minutes before we stopped and spent 30 minutes changing a tyre yet again. We arrived back in Quito in time for a late lunch and spent the remainder of the afternoon souvenir hunting.
Speckled Hummingbird
September 28th: Papallacta and San Isidro
Heading out of Quito early we arrived at Papallacta (over 4000 metres) just after dawn, expecting it to be cold and windy and we weren't disappointed. Jose who had, up until two weeks earlier, lived all his life in the Amazon Basin didn't appreciate how cold it could get and with only a t-shirt and light jacket he was soon turning a lovely shade of blue. We raided our luggage to provide him with additional hat, gloves, scarf, jumper and coat.
Although the habitat appeared very desolate it wasn't long before we started seeing birds, |
