Home - 2018 - Peru - August 30 - Amazon day 3

Photographer: Josh Eckels

Cloudy skies in the morning Neotropic cormorant A couple of dusky titis Looking angry as always Slate-colored hawk Lots of dangles Jacanas Walking on water, as usual Black-capped donacobius Another tree rat Non-tourist lodge, a little worse for the wear Standing watch through the weeds Another set of squirrel monkeys A little more gray-haired Parakeets Heron and dragonflies Lots of nests Blue-and-yellow macaws Macaws getting scrappy Get off my branch! Sorting things out Heading out Maybe a chestnut-breasted coronet Macaw in the lower branches The macaw tree More on the other side of the river Un-ID'd butterfly Checking for turtle eggs Eggs, uneaten Turtle egg, being moved to the lodge for safety Ready to dive Totally clogged with weeds Black caiman Another sloth Stretching to the left Heron about to skip town All stretched out Sugar ant nests Rufescent tiger heron Two more macaws Facing the camera for once Hind toes in action Another caiman lurking Bell wasp nest Distinctive orange band Anaconda in the grass Tail end of the anaconda Horned screamer about to scream View from the porch of the main lodge Another day, another boat ride Our sophisticated fishing gear Tern or similar Fishing spot number one Our fishing competition Do not insert finger here Piranha for dinner! Two in the boat at once Making friends with the piranha Moises looking a little suspicious of Stacy Woodfish on the line Another piranha Bright red circle on the tail The catch of the day Give me my fish! With his piranha gift Mid-afternoon on the river Relaxing after catching half the fish for the group Shoreline by the fishing spot Overloaded branches Basin white-lipped frog Sleeping bird Hidden spider Worming around the trunk Millipede hanging out by a web Black scorpion Another spider lurking Leaf-cutter ants Ant highway A much smaller treefrog Firefly Blunt-headed treesnake showing off its tongue Blunt-headed treesnake after retracting tongue Bright green in the headlamps Dragon on the tree Sloth sleepytime Another big frog

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