{"id":2772,"date":"2017-08-25T19:11:16","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T22:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/?p=2772"},"modified":"2017-08-25T22:26:09","modified_gmt":"2017-08-26T01:26:09","slug":"trip-through-northern-argentina-and-paraguay-day-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/archives\/2772","title":{"rendered":"Trip through Northern Argentina and Paraguay \u2013 Day 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

24 August 2017 \u2013 at Colonia Carlos Pelligrini \u2013 all quiet on the wetlands<\/em><\/p>\n

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Peace of the wetlands – marsh deer and young black eagle on a floating island<\/p><\/div>\n

Slept well, the rooster apparently having decided to wake up others today. Good breakfast and off for a personal birding tour arranged by my hosts. These tours are part of the deal and are very good value as is my whole stay at the \u00d1ande Ret\u00e1 lodge.<\/p>\n

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Yellow Cardinal, much sought but little seen<\/p><\/div>\n

The first part of the tour was in search of a particular bird that has long eluded me (and others): the Yellow Cardinal. I\u2019m not exactly a lister, but I do get a satisfaction out of seeing and photographing these \u2018difficult\u2019 species. My guide, Dar\u00edo, knew where one ought to be \u2013 on the smallholding of a farmer he knew \u2013 and got me permission to enter this private land where not only did we see male and female of the species, but a few other birds to boot. The visit was enhanced by a pair of turkeys that followed us like dogs, copulating every time we stopped to take photos. Strange world the turkeys seem to live in.<\/p>\n

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Must be a turkey thing<\/p><\/div>\n

Mission Yellow Cardinal completed, we headed to the other end of the settlement to walk a couple of trails, one through forest and another through reed beds. Not many birds here at all, but we were rewarded by the acrobatics of a [female] howler monkey, the largest monkey species in the Americas. I was told there is a small group of five here in C. Pelligrini \u2013 an adult pair and three juveniles –  but we only saw the one.<\/p>\n

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Female adult howler monkey, in pensive mood<\/p><\/div>\n

The reed bed was more productive for birds but no new species here this morning, and I stopped in at the Information Centre to watch a short video on the history of the Iber\u00e1 Reserve \u2013 started in the 1980s, with tourism starting only a few years ago.<\/p>\n

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The smallest of the three kingfishers in the area …<\/p><\/div>\n

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… and the medium size one<\/p><\/div>\n

Back to the lodge at dusk for another shower and what has become my daily schedule of reviewing the day\u2019s photos and making these short notes as a memory of what I do and see each day. Hopefully it will be acknowledged and appreciated in later years when I look back.<\/p>\n

A couple more memories of the day:<\/p>\n

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Juvenile black eagle<\/p><\/div>\n

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Female Marsh deer<\/p><\/div>\n

Tomorrow back to Mercedes along Paradise road, where I saw so much wild life on the way in to Iber\u00e1, and to some shops (C. Pelligrini is somewhat limited in that respect). And, importantly, to get back online for a while, load up these last three days to the blog and attend to some accumulated correspondence.<\/p>\n

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