I would have liked another day at beautiful El Calafate but as my departing flight from Buenos Aires to the US was approaching and as that's almost 2000 miles away and I was flying on the not always reliable Aerolinas Argentinas, I decided it would be prudent to have an extra day in the schedule just in case. The flight to BA went well so my extra day was spent at the birdy Reserva Ecologia Costanera Sur close to my Air B&B. There were still plenty of birds there being reported on eBird that I had failed to see but as it turned out I saw pretty much the same stuff I had seen before.
As I walked past the lagoon by the entrance the Red-fronted Coots were still abundant.
White-winged Coot is one of those birds that is poorly named. The white is just a few pale spots on the tips of the secondries.
The Southern Screamers were still screaming near their nest. I have to say the Horned Screamers I saw on the Amazon are better looking birds.
The same lagoon still held Spot-flanked Gallinules
Black-necked Swans
and Silver Teal.
Brown-chested Martin was new for my park list.
And I finally got a shot of the White-rumped Swallow where you can kind of see the pale forehead. The similar less likely Chilean Swallow has a dark forehead. There were a lot more swallows this time as the spring has progressed since my last visit.
I was hoping for some early spring migrant flycatchers but it was still the same stuff. Here's the Yellow-browed Tyrant.
I got a little better look at Snowy-crowned Terns but still not great photos. They are pretty freaky looking for a Sterna.
Rufescent Tiger-Herons were out.
I called this a White-crested Tyrannuet with the white streak visble on the crown. Sure looks like that Straneck's I saw last time.
I finally found my lifer Southern Yellowthroat.
I had another major photography hiccup. Not sure what happened this time but I had a Sooty-fronted Spinetail right in front of my face and many of my photos were focused off the bird and onto the tree. Not sure if it was the camera of the photographer. I got a few shots but missed the best ones.
A Narrow-billed Woodcreeper was also cooperative as it searched holes in this tree for good stuff to eat.
The blooming Aloe patch still held hummers with a new species being a pair of Glittering-bellied Emeralds.
Guilded Sapphire was still present. Sure doesn't look like the illustration in the guide.
One of my favorite birds were the friendly Black-and-rufous Warbling-Finches. It also has my favorite genus name "Poospiza."
My last new bird for the trip was this Yellow-throated Spintetail. This one popped up out of the cattails. I saw my lifer in Venezuela in a marsy wetland.
Despite the accident in Ushuaia it was still a fascinating and enjoyable trip. I totalled a paltry 145 species with 85 lifers. I would have gotten more if I had stayed in the warmer north but I had to see Tierra del Fuego. Just a few days after I left, an independent globe trotting world birder tallied 589 species in three weeks. But he gets up at 4am, goes to bed at midnight and thinks nothing of walking ten to tweny miles in a day. Don't think I want to do that.
Reserva Ecológica Costanera Sur, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, AR
Sep 24, 2023 8:54 AM - 1:29 PM
Protocol: Traveling
3.275 mile(s)
65 species
Southern Screamer 2
Black-necked Swan 2
Silver Teal 12
Yellow-billed Teal 1
Rosy-billed Pochard 30
Masked Duck 2
Lake Duck 9
White-tufted Grebe 40
Pied-billed Grebe 2
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 5
Picazuro Pigeon 10
Glittering-bellied Emerald 1
Gilded Hummingbird 3
Spot-flanked Gallinule 4
Common Gallinule 5
Red-fronted Coot 40
Red-gartered Coot 5
White-winged Coot 8
Limpkin 3
Southern Lapwing 2
Wattled Jacana 20
Snowy-crowned Tern 2
Neotropic Cormorant 40
Rufescent Tiger-Heron 1
Black-crowned Night Heron 1
Snowy Egret 1
Great Egret 6
Cocoi Heron 1
Harris's Hawk 3
Checkered Woodpecker 2
Crested Caracara 5
Chimango Caracara 1
Monk Parakeet 2
Nanday Parakeet 5
Narrow-billed Woodcreeper 2
Rufous Hornero 6
Buff-winged Cinclodes 1
Yellow-chinned Spinetail 1
Sooty-fronted Spinetail 2
White-crested Tyrannulet 3
Vermilion Flycatcher 1
Yellow-browed Tyrant 2
Great Kiskadee 15
White-rumped Swallow 2
Brown-chested Martin 1
Barn Swallow 3
Masked Gnatcatcher 5
House Wren 15
European Starling 50
Chalk-browed Mockingbird 2
Rufous-bellied Thrush 6
Creamy-bellied Thrush 5
Hooded Siskin 4
Rufous-collared Sparrow 15
Variable Oriole 4
Shiny Cowbird 1
Grayish Baywing 2
Southern Yellowthroat 3
Golden-crowned Warbler 4
Yellow-billed Cardinal 1
Black-capped Warbling Finch 1
Blue-and-yellow Tanager 4
Sayaca Tanager 2
Black-and-rufous Warbling Finch 6
Golden-billed Saltator 8
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