Brazilian Tanager. Photo ₢ Arthur Grosset.
Plans for the Centre are coming along slowly, we have received an overwhelming amount of support and good wishes from everybody we have spoken to about our plans.
Preparartions for the opening in October are going ahead and the space we are to be using, while the new building is being planned and built, is being cleared and decorated. A neighbouring banana grower has supplied us with some of his harvest to start the feeders. When I was there the other day several Green-headed, Brazilian, Sayaca and Ruby-crowned Tanagers were feeding on them.
Buff-throated Purpletuft. Photo ₢ Cláudia Komesu.
Today however I had a most agreeable experience: I have often said that Rancho Pica Pau is probably the best place on earth to see Buff-throated Purpletuft. Well today proved my point and gave me the feeling that things were going to work out just fine. I was showing a couple around and was approaching the Birdwatching Centre building when we saw a small bird perched in the guava tree just outside. A quick glance through the bins revealed not one, but two Buff-throated Purpletufts in the tree just three meters off the ground. The behaviour they were displaying reminded me of when I saw a pair building a nest at Angelim last year… here’s hoping! What could be finer than to have a pair of Purpletufts, our logo, nesting right outside our door.