{"id":2821,"date":"2017-08-29T16:46:32","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T19:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/?p=2821"},"modified":"2017-08-29T16:46:32","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T19:46:32","slug":"trip-through-northern-argentina-and-paraguay-day-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/archives\/2821","title":{"rendered":"Trip through Northern Argentina and Paraguay \u2013 Day 11"},"content":{"rendered":"

28 August 2017 \u2013 Ituzaing\u00f3 \u2013 A slow day \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

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An\u00f3 Chico, a new bird for me.<\/p><\/div>\n

It rained heavily all night, and was still pouring when I got up for breakfast. Rub\u00e9n, the owner of Caba\u00f1as T\u00edo Lucas (where I am staying) took me on a wet drive along some tarmac roads to see the beaches on the river Paran\u00e1, and to a couple of birding spots: a heronry and a bit of woodland known as Zanj\u00f3n Loreto (the second looked very promising if it ever dries out here). Then back to the caba\u00f1a, where I made some coffee and worked on my talk for the FAAPI Conference at the weekend.<\/p>\n

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Lesser yellow-headed vulture – common in these parts<\/p><\/div>\n

This concentration was broken by a huge lunch cooked by Rub\u00e9n, who cooks the main dishes while his wife makes the deserts.  By about 15.00 it had stopped raining, and I first tried to get to the Isla Apir\u00e9, in the river Paran\u00e1 and a short distance away where there is said to be extensive wild life. As there may well be, but I had no way of finding out; the lancha<\/em> was full and there was no other way to get there until too late in the afternoon to make it worthwhile.<\/p>\n

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Gray monjita<\/p><\/div>\n

So, I got in the car and drove out of town till I found the Reserva Santa Mar\u00eda, with walkways and an observation tower looking onto the a mixture of grassland and wetlands. The sun was out by then, and I did manage to get an hour\u2019s birding in, on what has been an otherwise wasted day. Plenty of big birds, but it was very windy and I think most of the smaller ones had hunkered down for the day.<\/p>\n

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well camouflaged, a red-winged tinamou<\/p><\/div>\n

Back to review the day’s photos and type up these notes, until Rub\u00e9n arrived with another huge meal \u2013 I can\u2019t go on like this. I do have a programme for tomorrow, visiting Cambyret\u00e1 (back in the Esteros de Iber\u00e1), so an early night\u2019s sleep is called for, with fingers crossed for a full day\u2019s birding tomorrow.<\/p>\n

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Giant wood rail<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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