A phone call from our friend Elsie, who lives a couple of beaches over, saw us rushing over to her garden to await the cause of our flurry of activity, a male Black-backed Tanager. There have been four documented records of this species in Ubatuba, two of them in Elsie’s magic garden! (More about that in another blog.)
Here are two of the photos she took of the recent arrival. Both photos copyright Elsie Rotenberg.
I was sitting here wondering what I would put as the first blog for the new look site, would it be the White-rumped Hawks over the Agulhas Negras road, where we had just scoped at least four different Black and Gold Cotingas? Would it be the first for Ubatuba in the form of Unicoloured Blackbirds at Cambucá? Possibly the Dark-billed Cuckoo at Rancho Pica Pau, or maybe the recent excellent morning on the Pedra do Baú road? Then inspiration came in the flick of a wing, the movement caught my eye, I glanced up from my desk, and there feeding away on the fruit on the balcony was a pair of Green-headed Tanagers! This bird constitutes number 80 on the apartment list and, being as it is the official logo of RSBS I guess it is only right and fitting that it is the subject of my first blog on the new-look site.
Green-headed Tanagers on the balcony. Photo ₢ Rick and Elis Simpson.
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Golden-fronted Greenlet in Caracas. Photo ₢ Phil Gunson.
Just recieved notice from Caracas that Phil has just had a new bird for his garden too. This really is very spooky, the link between the two properties seems almost unbreakable. He has seen a Golden-fronted Greenlet taking him to 77.
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