Apologies for website problems! If you have emailed us in the last three days please send again as we have been offline, thanks. 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