{"id":3777,"date":"2022-09-18T12:51:53","date_gmt":"2022-09-18T15:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/?p=3777"},"modified":"2022-09-18T12:51:53","modified_gmt":"2022-09-18T15:51:53","slug":"chaco-and-formosa-2022-day-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/archives\/3777","title":{"rendered":"Chaco and Formosa 2022 Day 29"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Date<\/strong><\/em>: Friday 16 September 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trajectory<\/em><\/strong>:\u00a0 Ituzaingo \u2013 Don Luis<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Distance covered:<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00b160 km<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Breakfast in Casa Bonita and then met Alejandra at 09.00.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First we went to visit the bird centre she manages in Ituzaingo, an imaginative and well laid out project. There I saw lots of photos of birds I would like to see, but realistically knew I would only see a few. `With luck!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I spent some time with Ale at the Bird Centre, planning the next couple of days. She is high up in local tourism circles and set up a number of future stays and attendances for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I then went with Arturo, one of the guides at the centre, to Santa Mar\u00eda \u2013 a nearby reserve with boardwalks and an observation tower. A nice visit and an informative guide, but sadly low on birds … <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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… as happens from time to time. I particularly liked the sentiments expressed on this sign: rough translation “although you may not see them these grasslands have many inhabitants’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After lunch I met Alejandra again and [slowly] we drove out to her lodge San Luis (see the red dot in the map above). A 38 km drive through rough tracks, mainly sand and wetland embankments, eight separate barred gates and a lot of birds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of those was the Iber\u00e1 seedeater, only recently discovered and endemic to the area. An obvious candidate for my bird of the day.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The site of Don Luis is quite wonderful, with its buildings scattered wide across a large area. I was assigned to a cabin called Tyto alba 1, which fittingly had a nesting box inhabited by a barn owl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As the sun was setting it was time for a cold beer and then supper ( a local fish called ‘boga’, as we planned tomorrow\u2019s activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To bed, happy and with several lifers in the bag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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