Another week over... a new one just begun...
Well here we are again, the end of another week in the jungle and of course the start of a new one!
This week started in great fashion, on the boat trip back to Taricaya we saw 3 Capibarri, one of the largest rodents in the world!
Activities this week included hauling huge planks of wood from Percy´s farm across the river to the lodge in order to repair a bridge to the Caopy Walk Way, building this bridge, building the final wall in the Interpretation Centre, Lee did some donkey training for the first time and weeding at Percy´s farm.
Tuesday and Wednesday morning saw Lee and I getting up at 4.30am to take some of the other volunteers mist netting. Both morning sessions were really successful, with 14 birds caught on Tuesday and 11 on Wednesday. There was no member of staff with us so Lee was in charge, Rachel (member of staff) had said before that Lee knew a load more about mist netting than she did and felt there was no need for her to come along! Way to go Lee!
Monday evening we all went on a night walk, a very strange sensation to be walking through the jungle with only a torch for light. Its even stranger when you turn off the torches, there is not a single bit light and the sounds around you seem all the more intense. Lee´s group spotted a Mouse Apoussom while Rachael´s group found some good sized Tarantulas and heard a Caimen splash into the creek.
Tuesday saw a troop of over 100 Squirrel monkey´s pass through the trees around the lodge, its quite a sight to see them filing one behind the other along the branches and then jumping one aftre the other across the same gap in the trees.
Wednesday evening we went on a frog hunt, this is where you spend an hour along one of the trails searching intensely for frogs. Lee managed to catch an Amazon Sheep Frog and our group caught a total of five, including 3 Basin White Lipped Frogs. We also saw a scorpion, heard a owl and saw a really big spider hanging from its web!
Friday morning Lee was doing observations at New Farm Platform, while Rachael was up in the canopy. Both had really good sessions and spotted a few new species of birds.
The end of the week saw the large Spider monkey, Antonia, Billy the White-fronted Capuchin and Lucas the Brown Capuchin all escape from their enclosure again! We took the opportunity to take quite a few pictures before trying to get them back into their cage. However Antonia is still managing to get out!
Its been a pretty relaxed weekend, Rachael has not been feeling too great and so we just spent it relaxing at the hostel, while Lee has been practising his spanish. We will be heading back to Taricaya later this afternoon but hope to get a few things from the market before we go.
Please feel free to leave comments about what we are doing on this Blog, there should be an option to leave a comment at the bottom of the posting, we would love to hear what you think!
Well here we are again, the end of another week in the jungle and of course the start of a new one!
This week started in great fashion, on the boat trip back to Taricaya we saw 3 Capibarri, one of the largest rodents in the world!
Activities this week included hauling huge planks of wood from Percy´s farm across the river to the lodge in order to repair a bridge to the Caopy Walk Way, building this bridge, building the final wall in the Interpretation Centre, Lee did some donkey training for the first time and weeding at Percy´s farm.
Tuesday and Wednesday morning saw Lee and I getting up at 4.30am to take some of the other volunteers mist netting. Both morning sessions were really successful, with 14 birds caught on Tuesday and 11 on Wednesday. There was no member of staff with us so Lee was in charge, Rachel (member of staff) had said before that Lee knew a load more about mist netting than she did and felt there was no need for her to come along! Way to go Lee!
Monday evening we all went on a night walk, a very strange sensation to be walking through the jungle with only a torch for light. Its even stranger when you turn off the torches, there is not a single bit light and the sounds around you seem all the more intense. Lee´s group spotted a Mouse Apoussom while Rachael´s group found some good sized Tarantulas and heard a Caimen splash into the creek.
Tuesday saw a troop of over 100 Squirrel monkey´s pass through the trees around the lodge, its quite a sight to see them filing one behind the other along the branches and then jumping one aftre the other across the same gap in the trees.
Wednesday evening we went on a frog hunt, this is where you spend an hour along one of the trails searching intensely for frogs. Lee managed to catch an Amazon Sheep Frog and our group caught a total of five, including 3 Basin White Lipped Frogs. We also saw a scorpion, heard a owl and saw a really big spider hanging from its web!
Friday morning Lee was doing observations at New Farm Platform, while Rachael was up in the canopy. Both had really good sessions and spotted a few new species of birds.
The end of the week saw the large Spider monkey, Antonia, Billy the White-fronted Capuchin and Lucas the Brown Capuchin all escape from their enclosure again! We took the opportunity to take quite a few pictures before trying to get them back into their cage. However Antonia is still managing to get out!
Its been a pretty relaxed weekend, Rachael has not been feeling too great and so we just spent it relaxing at the hostel, while Lee has been practising his spanish. We will be heading back to Taricaya later this afternoon but hope to get a few things from the market before we go.
Please feel free to leave comments about what we are doing on this Blog, there should be an option to leave a comment at the bottom of the posting, we would love to hear what you think!
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