In rescue of a Grey Headed Kite….!

We were in the YanaYacu Pucate River; it was very early morning…. There was a timid sun working its way through the clouds….we woke up early but….
It has been a very rewarding morning; we have been spotting lots of wild life on this particular morning, lots of birds, macaws, toucans, king fisher, agami heron….! Wonderful sight…!.

We happened to pass by a family of saddle back tamarin monkeys, they were resting in the branch of a tree, waiting for the sun to warm them up too….they were standing very still, as if they did not care at all that we were looking at them, it was a family of 5 and three of them just went to hide inside the foliage of the tree, the other two stood very still, just looking, just resting, everybody was taking pictures of them, I was so enthralled by the experience of them practically posing instead of hiding ,that I forgot to take pictures….! I can´t believe I could have forgotten ….! I think I will never have a more wonderful moment to take a picture of them as that precise one, we had plenty of time, but I was enjoying so much that instance….. after a while they very lazily started to make their way to the inner canopy of the tree following the rest of the family …..

Giant Otters in El Dorado River

It was a wonderful sight….giant otters in the Dorado River, at this time of the year…! It was a wonderful surprise…not only for me… but for all those on board…!  … Steven one of our guests had just been asking about them the day before… and I told him that it was very difficult to get a sighting of them at this time of the year….!

We were spotting a group of macaws that were flying around us, they  were coming out of huge tree making an enormous din, it was around 5:30pm., the sun was getting ready to set, the colors in the sky were starting to dance, it was that time of the day when you feel that the sky is starting to get ready for a wonderful party, all the colors beginning to change from a shinny turquoise, clouds changing from cotton wool white to a blush orange and getting stronger every minute…..a wonderful palette of colors from yellow to purple  developing under our eyes,  and under this colorful awning we were silently looking at these eight macaws, who were noisily flying around.