Our first taste of birding in the rain was this morning as we birded a wide valley in the Chapada Diamantina. It was only a shower in truth and once the weather cleared we saw some great birds with the endemic Sincora Antwren showing amazingly well just a few feet in front of us.
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| The endemic Sincora Antwren |
A calling Rufous-winged Antshrike was also pretty impressive but is a much more widespread species, and we also saw Lesser Elaenia, Cinnamon Tanager, flyover Sooty Swift, the endemic Pale-throated Pampa-Finch, Green-winged and Black-throated Saltators, Gilt-edged Tanager, Violet-capped Woodnymph, and at the bus we saw a Lowland Hepatic Tanager.
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| Cinnamon Tanager |
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| Pale-throated Pampa-Finch |
But the star performer was a pair of Collared Crescentchests that provided point-blank views and pointedly disregarded my group.
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| The endemic Collared Crescentchest |
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| Chapada Diamantina |
Then we drove to another area but failed to locate Sao Francisco Sparrow but a showy Pearly-vented Tody-Tyrant and Plain-crested Elaenia was a little compensation.
Lunch was in the nearby town and then we decided to keep on birding so headed to a particularly dry area of cerrado where Rufous-sided Pygmy-Tyrant and Grey-backed Tachuri proved easy to find despite the high temperature and blue midday skies.
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| Grey-backed Tachuri - another endemic |
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| Rufous-sided Pygmy-Tyrant - endemic |
There was also American Kestrel, Plumbeous Seedeater, Stripe-tailed Yellow Finch, and Wedge-tailed Grass-Finch. We checked out an area for Blue Finch without getting response so headed back down to another area to look for Hooded Visorbearer, seeing 3 Red-legged Seriemas along the way (and good spotting from Gill and Mark). This was particularly scenic but as it was Sunday there were lots of people and no visorbearers although the endemic Velvety Black-Tyrant and Chopi Blackbird were new.
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