cattle tyrant

One of the pleasant side-effects of staying at a place where birds are cherished is that many of them are very accustomed to people and let one get really close.

Cattle Tyrant (Machetornis rixosa subsp. obscurodorsalis) Napo Wildlife Center, Yasuni National Park, Orellna Province, Ecuador. Ecuadorian amazonian rain forest at ca. 200 m (656 ft) elevation; floodplain of Ro Napo.

Cattle Tyrant (Machetornis rixosa subsp. rixosa) Sexes similar. Roadside in Pocon, Mato Grosso, Brazil. Urban setting with surrounding area being disturbed cerrado at ca. 162 m (531 ft).

This was actually my last shot in Buenos Aires. I ran out of card space, and it was about to rain, and anyway I had to get back to the hotel to get changed and repacked for my flight ... so that was it. But now I'm posting in alphabetical order by the titles I gave them while editing, not in...

Early morning, so high ISO, but still a nice glimmer of what Delia has taught me is called catch-light.

That's the Argentine name for Cattle Tyrant. This was actually my first of them, spotted on the lawn of a large city park. We're nearing the end of my Buenos Aires shots, btw. Sometime next week I'll start on the 2 days of birding to Gualeguaychu and back. At 3 a day, probably about 2 months...

I think the Cattle Tyrant has had enough of me pointing at him with that big teleconverter ;) My next shot of him showed him flying away - but later for that one.

Here's another of the cattle tyrant hunting for insects on an overgrown pond (and again, thanks to Stanley for identifying the pond plant as Water Lettuce).

I think I posted one of the cattle tyrant a few weeks back. Now that I'm going through my Buenos Aires shots in an orderly way (left to right, top to bottom), there will be more. This one is standing on the pond weeds in a thickly overgrown pool at a Buenos Aires ecological preserve.

After several not so successful attempts in the previous days, I finally got a good pose. Paul 2013 Adds to photo life list, http://rustyblades.smugmug.com/Nature-Flora-Fauna/Birds/U13/27415086_K5B6Bb#!i=2377157810&k=Cpqq96h

Cattle Tyrant (Machetornis rixosa) hitches a ride on a Capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris), Fazenda Sao Francisco, Mato Grosso Do Sul, Brazil

Cattle Tyrant (Machetornis rixosa) and Capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris). We frequently saw the two species together in Northern Pantanal, Mato Grosso, Brazil

Bird foraging along the Transpantaneira, northern Pantanal, Brazil

It was a chilly day and this bird was taking care of its territory without noticing anything else so I could get pretty near it.

Photo taken in Londrina, Paran, Brazil