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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ovenbird43" data-source="post: 1614583" data-attributes="member: 64478">The next day, as planned, I returned wearing my rubber boots.  Again I headed straight down the Penas Blancas Valley, hoping to make it farther downslope today.  On the way down I saw many of the same birds,  plus a couple new ones: Rufous Mourner and Crimson-collared Tanager.  I came to the stream that had turned me back the day before, and searched downstream for a way to cross.  Sure enough, I found a section that was slightly wider, thus slightly shallower and slower.  I had to scramble up a steep, muddy bank on the other side, and didn't know how I would get back down it, but hey I was across!  And there sure wasn't much activity on the other side, not for quite a while... it was hot, quiet, other than an occasional chip deep in the forest.  Eventually I came to a clearing, with a spectacular view of the valley.  Suddenly I was surrounded by an unmistakably antbird song, each emanating from the thick tangles around isolated trees.  It took a while of peering into the tangles to get a look, but finally I saw one- a Dusky Antbird.  A mixed canopy flock in the area also held my attention for a while.  Shortly thereafter, hot and tired and knowing I had a long hike back up, I turned around to head back up.  Not far up I was treated to another antbird species- a pair of Immaculate Antbirds in the undergrowth right by the trail, so close I didn't need my binoculars!  Fantastic.  Somewhere along the way back I also saw my first Azure-hooded Jay.</blockquote>

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