Back to Huacarpay Lake

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After a frustrating day yesterday trying to reinstate our crashed website, we were glad to get back out into the field again.  We enjoyed a second visit to Huacarpay Lake just outside Cusco.  Conditions were perfect with a beautiful clear blue sky and not a breath of wind.  Once again we had the whole place to ourselves apart from a couple of farmers, cattle and sheep.  Bearded Mountaineer was again our bird of the day.  We watched this beautiful hummingbird feeding on the yellow flowers of a tobacco plant on the south side of the lake.  We added just one new bird for the year: Little Ground-Tyrant which we found feeding in a ploughed field with a flock of Rufous-naped Ground-Tyrants.  Other good birds included Andean Flickers, Many-coloured Rush-Tyrant, Wren-like Rushbird, Golden-billed Saltator and White-browed Chat-Tyrant.
Bird Species total:  2810
Posted 24 July, Cusco, Peru