Yesterday I went on an adventure to explore Don Victor; a trail that had been inaccessible since Storm Nate swept away the bridge over the river a couple of months ago. With some help from some local farmers, we constructed a make-shift bridge over the river using large logs of wood that had been washed downstream. It was a perilous crossing, with myself almost slipping off into the raging water below on a couple of occasions.
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| Make-shift bridge |
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| Another river we had to cross - it was much harder than it looks in the photo. |
I saw a few new bird species here, including two
American Dippers, a
Tufted Flycatcher,
Collared Redstart and
Spotted Woodcreeper. There were also a few
Torrent Tyrannulets feeding on the river.
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| American Dipper |
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| Collared Redstart |
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| Tufted Flycatcher - photography was challenging in the dim rainy conditions. |
Unfortunately, the trails the other side of the river had both been cut off by massive landslides, meaning that 1/3 of the reserve is going to be inaccessible for the foreseeable future.
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| The path used to cross over to the otherside. |
Earlier in the day, we found an interesting looking butterfly larvae...
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| Opsiphanes bogatanus - a unique looking head capsule with four pairs of spikes. A new record for the reserve. |
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