Sorry for lack of post last weekend - fairly quiet apart from a birdwatching tour in the Botanical Gardens with a young rasta and enthusiastic Guyanese birder, who located the 'signature' bird of the Guyanese coast, the blood-coloured woodpecker, but as it was towards 6pm by the time we saw it, it looked like a little dark blob to us non-(or in Malcolm's case, incipient)birders.
This week, we've had our first trip to the field station, on the northern edge of the Iwokrama reserve, quite an idyllic spot by the Essequibo river. It involved a fairly long and bumpy drive along a dirt road, with critical timings across the old railway bridge at Linden and a ferry across the river just before the lodge. Penny did some work including finding out about sustainable logging and monitoring activities, and reinstating a library in a 'benab', a circular structure, open to the elements and the birds, who regarded the shelves as an ideal nesting area. We managed a trip out to Turtle Mountain, 'climbing' 300m and sleeping in hammocks and eating a tasty catfish cooked over a camp-fire. Lots of macaw, toucan and some monkey sightings but no jaguar yet.
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