This would be our final morning in the Chaco before we headed off into the east of the country to explore some different habitats. The morning we had hoped would give us glorious light for photography, but sadly there was cloud that obscured the sunrise and we did not get the light we had hoped for.
Still there was an enjoyable walk around Fortin
Toledo to be had, and we saw a few nice bits. Stranecks Tyrannulet was a new
species for our trip, although it did not show well at all. We had a lot of fun
trying to photograph the Many-coloured Chaco Finches that were around, and on
that front we largely succeeded. A Skunk that we found in the roadside grass
was the best of our mammal encounters.
At 10:00 we set off from Fortin Toledo,
driving to the town of Concepcion, which we finally reached at 15:30. After
checking in to our hotel, we decided to head south of the town to the Estero
Milagro National Park, or at leas the section of it that was accessible from
the 22 highway.
In the end we found a dirt road heading east
from the highway that provided us access to the patchwork of grazing areas and gallery
forest. For the most part the birding involved common species, but we had a nice
encounter with a pair of Black-crowned Tityra and a pair of Buff-bellied Puffbird
was an unexpected surprise. We heard several Small-billed Tinamou but none came
to the tape, and a pair of Streamer-tailed Tyrants was very enjoyable. On the
mammal front, we had a Crab-eating Fox cross the path in front of us.
We finished up birding at dark and headed
back to Concepcion for a rest and relax in the evening.
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