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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bananafishbones" data-source="post: 3201786" data-attributes="member: 66732">The morning warmed up so much so that a t-shirt was ok, we birdied along a road that brought us a Sharp Shinned Hawk, Noah wasn't excited as I was as he gets them on the backyard. We all enjoyed the Scarlet bellied Mountain tanager and some Paramo Seedeaters. We thought we had missed the chance to see the Rufous fronted Parakeet early in the morning but we heard them way off and high in a forest high above us. Jose played the tape in hope rather than expectation and Wow, 7 came steaming down over our heads. They landed somewhere in front of us and Jose ran the other way to get his camera from the truck while Noah, Jeff and myself ran to find them all sat on a farm roof. Brilliant chance for images, but Jose missed it all by a few seconds! Lesson learned Jose! We spent the rest of the morning birding the grounds of the hotel where we picked up Andean tit-spine tail, Mountain Velvetbreast, Buff winged Starfrontlet, Golden breasted puffleg, one that pleased Noah was Black thighed Puffleg, an amazing Rainbow bearded Thorntail and incredibly a Paramo Tapiculo. To end an incredible day we got down to a few feet Sword-billed Hummingbird..... Flippin eck if it wasn't for the Buffy Helmetcrest this would have been the bird of the day. Just before we left for the airport we picked up a Grey breasted mountain toucan... A lifer for Jose too.Alas it was the day to say goodbye to Noah Stryker. I feel slightly privalaged to have been part of his world record attempt big year but more importantly was happy to bird with a good guy. We catch a plane out of the Andes into the Coastal range of Sierra Nevada.</blockquote>

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