{"id":3583,"date":"2022-09-02T23:35:52","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T02:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/?p=3583"},"modified":"2022-09-03T07:25:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T10:25:13","slug":"chaco-and-formosa-2022-day-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/archives\/3583","title":{"rendered":"Chaco and Formosa 2022 Day 15"},"content":{"rendered":"\n


Date<\/strong><\/em>: Friday 2 September 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trajectory<\/em><\/strong>:  Las Lomitas – Fort\u00edn Soledad – Las Lomitas<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Distance covered:<\/em><\/strong> 330 km<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An exceptional day\u2019s birding today. After breakfast in the hotel we drove slowly to Fort\u00edn Soledad. Little traffic except a couple of cattle trucks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We birded our way slowly along a dirt road for some 70 kms until we reached the township of Fort\u00edn Soledad …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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… where we met Chilo at his restaurant and tour centre. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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First lunch, where we met a number of birders and photographers. The company was great \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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… and so was the food<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After lunch Chilo took us out on a punted canoe for four hours in the Ba\u00f1ado la Estrella, the second largest wetlands in Argentina. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With low waters there was an exceptional number of birds to see, but our specific interest was to help Chilo in a count of Jabiru nests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chilo punted us through some twenty kilometres of shallow water and we saw every variety of bird \u2013 this is really a stunning site to visit, especially at this time of the year with low water. The weather was good too, and we were spared the hot sun Formosa can provide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It was a wonderful experience, with so many birds and absolute silence (the punting was noiseless).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bird of the day is the roseate spoonbill, of which we saw many.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tomorrow we head still further west.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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