{"id":3509,"date":"2022-08-29T22:19:57","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T01:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/?p=3509"},"modified":"2022-08-29T22:19:57","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T01:19:57","slug":"chaco-and-formosa-2022-day-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/archives\/3509","title":{"rendered":"Chaco and Formosa 2022 Day 11"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Date<\/strong><\/em>: Monday 29 August 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trajectory<\/em><\/strong>:\u00a0\u00a0Formosa – Guaycolec – Formosa<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Distance covered:<\/em><\/strong> 85 km<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ariel and I left at six in the morning for the Guaycolec Animal Reserve, where he used to work. Today was a full on birding day, but this is not a birding blog so I\u2019ll limit myself as usual to one bird of the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In fact I shot about four hundred pics today, between birds and other fauna, which I\u2019ll probably not get to process for quite a while. Today\u2019s photos are all off my iPhone (and the ones above and below off Ariel\u2019s!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Guaycolec was not technically open but Ariel had a key and knew everyone there so I had a very privileged visit, meeting some of the new arrivals, some of the long-term residents, and helping with the feeding of the big cats. I was very honoured to see behind the scenes of the reserve, something not easily accessible to amateur wild life enthsuiasts like me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here are one or two of the residents \u2013 I will have many more photos in time. The iPhone quality is not great, especially when I\u2019ve pumped up the zoom, but they give a flavour. The first is a \u00f1andu – one of many friendly rheas walking around the compound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Next, a very young Geoffroy\u2019s Cat \u2013 rather more spit and snarl than it seems. This had arrived in the rescue centre this morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And a lovely young South American tapir, about eight months old. It will soon lose its humbug colouring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These baby macaws had just come in too \u2013 confiscated contraband from near the Paraguayan border. Some macaw species sell illegally for very high prices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Time for my bird of the day. It\u2019s unusual for me to take a decent photo of a bird with my iPhone, but this was a big bird (a King Vulture) and I was inside the cage with it for once.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It was Ariel\u2019s task to get the asado ready, with some hefty chunks of meat …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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… while one of the other people working at the reserve was cutting up animal food for the big cats. I loved his [home-made] hat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I helped muckout and feed a dozen or so puma compounds, and one ocelot enclosure: it was a first for me to be so close to ocelots.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By the time the pumas and ocelots were fed and their compounds cleaned out Ariel\u2019s cooking was more or less done \u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2026 and we sat down for an al fresco lunch \u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After which Ariel and I spent a little more time trying unsuccessfully to get some decent shots of a couple of birds we had seen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

By five o\u2019clock we were back in town. Siesta, blog writing and supper in turn, and an early night. Tomorrow to two more sites, this time for some undiluted birding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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