Today after breakfast we set off on our own for a walk - we took the, up and down, adventure trail, returning on the discovery trail passing both the manakin leks - males only no females so no displays going on. I then caught up with some emails and we had a cup of tea on the veranda......while there I checked with a guide what the very blue bird I had seen on the feeder yesterday was - it was a blue grey tanager. As it was Easter Sunday the Centre was very busy ...

A free day to do what we will - or so we thought but as we were about to go on our walk we were asked if we minded visiting the oilbirds today rather than tomorrow. We said 'no problem' and instead headed off with a guide and an American family to the cave where the oilbirds live. We arrived at a narrow cave and went in 2 at a time to see the birds - there were several on the cave ledges but as your eyes adjusted and the torch moved around you could see many mor...

Up at 5 ish and out at 6 am onto the veranda to see what life was about. A UK biology teacher was already there watching a ferruginous pgmy owl - it looked like a small rufous addition to the branch! The other new birds we saw were the Trinidad mot mot and a northern waterthrush. At 0830, after breakfast, we went down the discovery trail with Molly our guide for our orientation walk, we were joined by another British family. We saw golden headed manakin in their ...

Up at 5am, then breakfast in our room before meeting Dennis our driver who took us on the 50-60minute drive to the airport. For the whole journey we listened to him telling us the woes of trying to get a new generator and generator parts to Rock View Lodge; Colin was beside himself as, just prior to a busy bank holiday weekend, another generator had broken down! A lorry had refused to carry a new generator and the plane was being difficult with taking the parts ....