Itinerary

1. QUITO-YANACOCHA-MINDO

   Departure at 6 am from Quito to Yanacocha Reserve – some of the feeders' possibilities include: Scarlet-bellied and Black-chested Mountain-Tanagers, Shining Sunbeam, Great Sapphirewing, Sword-billed Hummingbird, and Yellow-breasted Brush-Finch; several Tawny Antpithas do walk around us during this stop. Then we will have lunch on the road and drive to Birdwatchers House where several tanagers do visit and pose for us in the well-created bodies of water; our target, however, will be the spectacular and odd-looking: Plate-billed Mountain-Toucan along with tanagers and other birds. The hummingbird feeders have some different species like Collared Inca, Gorgeted Sunangel, and Speckled Hummingbird. After this fantastic first day; we will have dinner in one of the restaurants in Mindo and then spend the night at Mindo Lindo, another bird photo venue. 

   Meals: Lunch, dinner & overnight are included.

2. MINDO TO QUITO

   Depart at 5 am; our early rise will let us visit an area deep within the forest where a short time after dawn the bright scarlet forms of several displaying Andean Cock-of-the-rocks will start the day with a spectacular forest performance. However, our day is far from finishing, because San Tadeo has set some fruit feeders visited by several spp of tanagers (Black-capped, Beryl-spangled, Golden-napped, for mentioning some of them) private residence was converted to another excellent cloud forest bird viewing and photography site. This efficiently laid out private residence features two different feeder set-ups. After this fantastic first part of the morning, we will drive to Alambi Reserve were with 10-20 species visiting on most days. The most common is usually is the outrageous Booted Racket-tail, the male of which has a strange long tail, with two paddles at the end. Other regular drop-ins are several glistening species like the audacious Violet-tailed Sylph, the standout Purple-bibbed Whitetip, and the gem-like Western Emerald., dinky Purple-throated Woodstar that regularly buzzes around the Reserve. After Alambi`s visit, we will drive to Quito, stopping on the route for lunch, arriving at approximately 5 pm. 

   Meals included today: breakfast and lunch.