Atta Rainforest Lodge

We were up early for coffee and cookies at 05.45 prior to a walk along the Rupununi Road in the hope of seeing birds soon after dawn and before it got too hot. I got a good photo on my mobile of red and green macaws accompanied by tropical kingbirds with the assistance of the guide and his very powerful binoculars on a tripod. There was a roadside hawk but herons, vultures, green parrots and a toucan were more distant. An agouti was on the road and a small caiman in one of the streams.
Back at the Lodge, I heard an orependula and screaming piha, and saw small lizards running around the grounds.
I was introduced to an app entitled Merlin which identifies birds by their calls. I had almost forty by the time we left the lodges in Guyana.
We made a forest walk in the morning to see the hardwoods and other trees and vines. Many of the trees were very straight and tall, seeking the sun above the canopy.
We made another walk down the main road in the late afternoon and saw a black-coloured vulture feeding on the carcass of a capybara. There were also macaws, toucans, swifts and a heron.Read more