{"id":2787,"date":"2017-08-25T22:24:48","date_gmt":"2017-08-26T01:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/?p=2787"},"modified":"2017-08-25T22:26:33","modified_gmt":"2017-08-26T01:26:33","slug":"trip-through-northern-argentina-and-paraguay-day-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/archives\/2787","title":{"rendered":"Trip through Northern Argentina and Paraguay \u2013 Day 8"},"content":{"rendered":"

24 August 2017 \u2013 Colonia Carlos Pelligrini to Mercedes – second mission achieved<\/em><\/p>\n

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Always plenty to look at on the roadside<\/p><\/div>\n

Left C. Pelligrini after breakfast, spending ten minutes snapping some of the birds on the Lodge\u2019s feeders. Typically the less common ones I had seen on previous mornings when they put out crumbs didn\u2019t turn up this morning, but you see what you see.<\/p>\n

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A young howler monkey. The black fur is the adult male, whi was too concealed for me to get a shot.<\/p><\/div>\n

Stopped off on the way out of C. Pelligrini at the trail where I had seen Mummy howler monkey yesterday, hoping I might see the (black) Daddy monkey today. In fact I did \u2013 he was with two younger monkeys \u2013 but almost impossible to photograph as he was so deeply embedded in the treetops. I did manage however to pick out a partial shot of one of the young ones with directed flash \u2013 not ideal, but recognisably a monkey.<\/p>\n

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The crazy tail of the very appropriately named strange-tailed tyrant<\/p><\/div>\n

I drove very slowly for the first thirty km or so, as I was looking for a bird called the strange-tailed tyrant. I had a photo from a couple of days ago, but I wanted one that showed the tail a little better. Anyway, I was lucky enough to find another \u2013 or who knows, the same one (?) \u2013 and got a better shot. This is a rather special bird and people come here just to see it, also quite hard to see so I was doubly lucky. Very odd flight pattern \u2013 I first saw it flying really low across the road with its long, flapping tail making it look more like a weasel or mink than a bird, and then flitting around at ground level until finally settling for a while on a fence post where I was able to take a few shots.<\/p>\n

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Unusual shot of a chimango …<\/p><\/div>\n

Further along the road saw lots of caranchos (which I’m not very fond of) and another couple of larger  birds that looked like raptors, and turned out to be.<\/p>\n

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… and what turned out to be a Savannah Hawk<\/p><\/div>\n

Drove on to Mercedes, taking a few more shots along the way and arrived back at the same hotel about 15.30 where I managed to get F on Skype (I had been without any phone or internet for four days). Today – or what’s left of it – is a rest day, and hopefully a chance to post a few days\u2019 worth of blog; tomorrow an early start for the Mburucuy\u00e1 National Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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