{"id":3548,"date":"2022-08-31T20:42:52","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T23:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/?p=3548"},"modified":"2022-08-31T20:43:52","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T23:43:52","slug":"chaco-and-formosa-2022-day-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/archives\/3548","title":{"rendered":"Chaco and Formosa 2022 Day 13"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Date<\/strong><\/em>: Wednesday 31 August 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trajectory<\/em><\/strong>:  Laguna Blanca – Misi\u00f3n Tacaagl\u00e9 – Laguna Blanca<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Distance covered:<\/em><\/strong> 200 km<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Surprisingly good breakfast today (fresh croissants came after this photo), and off for a 07.30 start. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Today we shared the driving \u2026 it feels good to have a bird guide and a chauffeur!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Quite early in the day we saw a King Vulture flying very, very high in the sky \u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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… and it reminded me of the King Vulture feather I had been given when I was mucking out cages in the Guaycolec Reserve and which I am going to turn into a quill ballpoint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Obviously we had a number of stops for mate as well as birds \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One interesting thing I noted is the use of beer cans as night reflectors on country roads \u2013 a cheap and effective way of providing road guidance in the dark. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I\u2019m also rather fond of the \u2018palo borracho\u2019 (floss silk, or drunken trees), which are very common in this region. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Time for lunch \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2026 which we had at a service station after visiting a border post [with Paraguay], just across the River Pilcomayo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After lunch we visited an old Franciscan Mission at Tacaagl\u00e9 \u2013 moved twice because of flooding.  A very interesting place, though much smaller in scope than the great Jesuit Missions in Paraguay and the Province of Misiones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Back on numerous tracks and trails we continued birding until dusk .. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And at about 18.00 we returned to our hotel in Laguna Blanca for beer, blog writing and supper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My bird of the day: hard, with so many, but I\u2019ve chosen the great ant shrike – this is the female. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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`Tomorrow we move west some three hundred kilometres: watch this spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Date: Wednesday 31 August 2022 Trajectory:  Laguna Blanca – Misi\u00f3n Tacaagl\u00e9 – Laguna Blanca Distance covered: 200 km Surprisingly good breakfast today (fresh croissants came after this photo), and off for a 07.30 start.  Today we shared the driving \u2026 it … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,40,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-2","category-trip-to-formosa-and-the-chaco-2022","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3548"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3567,"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548\/revisions\/3567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}