This moth belongs in the family Sphingidae, subfamily Macroglossinae. It is nocturnal and feeds on grapevines

Marcelo discovered this caterpillar crossing the road and called us. An impressive size. At fist sight some 10 cm. The coin serves as a reference. We surrounded it so as to keep it safe from passers-by or cyclists till the edge of the road.

Sally saw these wo guans and later two others, but she does not know whether they were the same

Out of the blue sometnhing big landed in the middle of the path. It was a dusky-legged guan!!!!!! First it lay on the ground wallowing in dust. A small girl got near and the guan flew to a nearby tree where it stood for a while and finally left

Not very remarkable, but the white line on the face typical of nuptial plumage can be seen

Within a numerous group of gulls Simón discovered the skimmer when he saw the photos

In the same group of gulls, the Black Skimmer and a Grey-hooded Gull

The chick of the Brasil end

With a white mulberry in the bill

A fight between a tropical kingbird and another bird called our eye. The latter turned to be a female shiny cowbird and we assumed the cowbird tried to parasitize the kingbird. The cowbird left and the kingbird perched in a tipu tree. We thought the nest could be near and stayed to see if we could spot it. We were not lucky. But to our surprise in a tipu tree next to it there was a hornero that had been parasitized by a shiny cowbird. The fledgling claimed for food. Nevertheless when the hornero arrived, it got into the nest to feed its own chicks. On this occasion the cowbird got nothing. But a few moments later another or the same adult brought him some food.