We failed to find any birding sites local to Satipo which interested us, and as such we chose to spend the morning, driving the three and half hours to Villa Rica, the next town where we would be birding. The drive was slow, but we saw a few birds on the way, including Bat Falcon, and a riverside stop at a restaurant found us White-winged and White-chested Swallow.
We arrived at Villa Rica around lunchtime and settled
ourselves into a nice accommodation and grabbed a bite to eat. In the
afternoon we headed up to the protected area of Bosque Shollet above the town
where it was possible to find many of the target species for the area. Our
afternoon was quite slow though, with only one outstanding highlight when a
Leymebamba [Rufous-breasted] Antpitta came in to our tape and showed phenomenally well but all
too briefly for a photo. This was the most difficult of the Antpittas I had
marked down on our itinerary, and as such it was a relief to get it safely
under the belt.
In order to find the rare Cloud Forest Screech Owl, we
stopped in the forest well after dark, but the moon was extremely bright and in
the hour and a half that we searched we received no response from any owls. It
was an extremely disappointing night session, with no mammals or frogs and only
a distant Lyre-tailed Nightjar to show for our efforts. Because of the state of
the moon, it was decided to try again early in the morning, as opposed to
wearing ourselves out trying in vain in the evening.
Bosque Shollet: Roadside Hawk, Rufous-breasted Antpitta, Azara’s Spinetail, Grey-breasted Wood-Wren, Rufous-collared Sparrow, Russet-crowned Warbler, Spectacled Redstart, Fawn-breasted Tanager,
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