Dry Acacia forest and thorn scrub at Bosque Pomac, N. Peru June 2008.
Snowy-throated Kingbird, Bosque Pomac N. Peru June 2008.
Saturday 14 June saw a few of us gathering in Amsterdam for our KLM flight to Lima, Peru. Well, that's what we thought - we ended up stopping in Bogota en route to refuel thanks to a diversion to avoid bad weather in the Caribbean. Truth is of course that the pilot needed the Nectar points! Anyway after only a few hours sleep we were boarding a plane to Chiclayo where we were met by our driver and after less than an hour we were birding at Bosque Pomac in the dry forests. Necklaced Spinetail, Superciliated Wren and better still Peruvian Plantcutter all "fell" quickly. Snowy-throated Kingbird was a nice surprise (I don't see these here very often).
Rufous FlycatcherIt wasn't too long before we located the second of our target birds though in the form of a Rufous Flycatcher. In fact we found at least 3 as well as Sulphur-throated Finches and Coastal Miner.
