Mashpi Amagusa Reserve

Today we start later at 6am heading for the feeders in Mashpi Amagusa. We’ll be in the cloud forest again.

There was a big group of 10 and another group of two that we saw most of the previous days. It was a bit chaotic on the balcony, but with four guides spotting, very little was missed. A number of birds we hadn’t seen before. The fog got pretty bad at times, making photos not possible at times.

We saw this large butterfly called a Giant Forest Owl.

They had a separate area with the hummingbird feeders and an employee came out with some flowers while we were there and asked for volunteers. Donna volunteered, they put a flower in her hand and the hummingbirds came to eat.

Driving down the mountain to the restaurant, our guide spotted these Bronze-winged parrots.

Then we go to Mirador Guaycapi for lunch and a little more birding. We stopped here on the modified day 2.

The squirrels also come raid the fruit on the feeders.

Then our guide took us into Quito for drop off at 4 pm at our hotel. We got cleaned up and made it to the 6 pm information meeting for our Galápagos tour. We found out we’ll be meeting in the lobby at 4:20 am tomorrow morning.

Dinner was on your own, some folks were going to go out to a restaurant, but it was raining, and we’d had a long day already, so we elected to eat in the hotel restaurant.