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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JWN Andrewes" data-source="post: 1648303" data-attributes="member: 7131">Been away from internet access for a couple of days, (good to see I've encouraged a bit of a wander down memory lane) and I’ve decided to be quite strict about this, just sticking to exactly twenty years ago. Shame, missed a good couple of days there, and some cracking birds, but can’t be helped.November 18th 1989We (when I say we, I was with a couple of friends who weren’t birders, just into the whole like eco scene, man, if you know what I mean, and we hadn’t really planned anything, we were just hitching round the country looking for cool things to see), so as I was saying we are now at Panacocha lagoon, up a tree, one of those high level walkway things. I think we must have been at some sort of eco-tourism place, maybe out of season, because there were no other people around, but some quite nice chalets that we camped in. We’d just hitched a lift off some one with a boat who said that for a few bob he could take us to a place he thought we’d like, and he’d be back to pick us up in a few days. Goodness we were naïve! Didn’t do us any harm though, cracking little spot it was, and he did indeed return for us. Anyway, saw a bunch of good stuff up that tree; Cream-coloured Woodpecker was probably the best, Grey-headed Kite was a tick, and Bare-necked Fruitcrow. Others that I’d only seen for the first time in the past couple of days included Lettered Aracari, Blue & Yellow Macaws, Yellow-tufted Woodpeckers, Violaceous Jays & Black-tailed Tityras. Later, when the chappy returned with his boat, we did a circuit of the lagoon, and I saw my first ever Hoatzins! Man that was exciting, a truly fabulous, fabled beast! Also completed my trio of Tityras with a female Black-crowned (I’d seen Masked a couple of months earlier), saw a couple more Sungrebes (including one stood out on a branch sticking out of the water – coolest legs in the bird world!), roosting Ladder-tailed Nightjars, Green & Rufous Kingfisher, White-eared Jacamars, Black Caracaras, Red-capped Cardinals, boy what a place. The day ended back at Panacocha village, with Black-capped Donacobius and Turquoise Tanagers among the treats there.More goodies tomorrow (time permitting).James</blockquote>

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