Minas Triangle success Pt:1.
10 11 2009I recently had the privilege to travel to the ‘Minas Triangle’ (Serra da Canastra, Serra do Cipó and Santuário do Caraça), with my old friend Tommy and his best buddy Knut.
Red-legged Seriema.
We drove up to Canastra from São Paulo. One of their target birds was the Red-legged Seriema. We stopped at a service station along the way to fill up with fuel and calorie packed food items and were told by a curious forecourt attendant, who wondered who the devil we were, that there was a resident Seriema in the fields behind the station. We looked in vain and were just about to leave when it appeared the other side of the fence resulting in the photo shown here.
Two adult and three young Brazilian Mergansers.
We stopped at Canastra for three full days; the first day we were lucky enough to find the main target for the area in the lower section of the region, the Brazilian Merganser. As can be seen in this photo there was a family party of six, two adults and four immatures.
Black-masked Finch.
The second day was spent on the upper park area resulting in many good birds such as this Black-masked Finch.
Brasilia Tapaculo.
The biggest coup of the day however was getting superb views and this photo of the ’skulking’ Brasilia Tapaculo.
The last day was spent photographing anything that would sit still, or, as in the case of this magnificent King Vulture, fly close enough.
Cock-tailed Tyrant.
All photos on this page copyright Tommy Pedersen.
See Tommy’s complete set of photos of our time at Serra da Canastra on http://homepage.mac.com/sandman777/Brazil-October2009-1/
