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Monday - 22 April 2024 - The sail today is a bit odd as the 3-day passengers leave in the morning and the 4-day passengers arrive in the afternoon. We are on a 7-day trip and only one other couple are with us for the 7 days, so most of the day we have the ship to ourselves.

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We are off to more traveling up and down the river. We did not have to go far for some bird watching.

This is a White-Headed Marsh Tyrant.
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A Red-and-White Spinetail which is only found in the Amazon.
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A Yellow Headed Caracara in flight. Cal had a good time trying to capture all the birds in flight.
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The Oriole Blackbird is a bird only found in the Amazon basin and northern South American wetlands.
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A Tucuxi or Grey River Dolphin, jumps out of the water. Cal was on top of the ship for about 45 minutes tracking dolphins feeding and was lucky to have this one jump out of the water. We found out later that river dolphins seldom breach water.
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Another safari into one of the smaller rivers feeding the Amazon.
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Weaver bird nest suspended in the tree over the water.
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A Black-Capped Donacobius.
Moving through very thick vegetation.
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Looking off the edge of the boat into the foliage is a Red Tailed Dragonfly.
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A Striated Heron.
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While we were in reeds higher than the boat the guide suddenly rushed over to Mom and pushed a reed away from the boat.

On the back of the reed was a Peruvian Pink Toe Tarantula!!
Peruvian Pink Toe Tarantula in a Virginia Ann horror movie.
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Cute little pink toes.
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The reed filled tributary we were exploring.
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As we pushed through the water plants a Red Headed Caiman Lizard raced away from the boat.

We paused and took time to get a headshot.
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We zipped past this Capped Heron going up the river, and Cal missed the photo as the bird was frightened by the boat. We were cautious going back and slowed in the area where we had spotted the heron. Fortunately, the heron had returned to the edge of the river. We drifted so as not to disturb him while taking pictures.
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Not sure who this little one is.
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A beautiful day on the Amazon River.
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Another flying Horned Screamer - very hard to catch these guys sitting still.
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Deep in the water plants we came on this little Wattled Jacana screaming at us and not flying away even though we were very close.

The guide said it was a male. It was protecting an egg or eggs in a nest.
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After a lot of searching we found the egg just below the screaming Wattled Jacana. Hard to see - look to the middle of the picture for a gray spotted egg.
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Looks like a storm may be brewing.
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A Red-Capped Cardinal.
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Now we were concerned. We headed back to the ship, fortunately, the storm was still a good distance from us.

We got ready for dinner as the storm hit. We were fine but the new passengers joining us for the next four days were drenched on their journey to the ship.
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