Sunday May 4, 2008 Our first full day in Ecuador, we drive from Guayaquil to the coast. Along the way we stop at Serro Blanco for some birding. Scrub Blackbird Pacific Ovenbird Tropical Gnatcatcher Tropical Parula Ecuadoran Ground Dove Red Eyed Vireo Ecuadorian Thrush Blue Gray Tanager Grey Cheeked Parakeet Streak Headed Woodcreeper Red Billed Scythbill Fasciated Wren Streaked Saltater Tropical Kingbird Groove Billed Ani Common Ground Dove Variable Seedeater Sooty Crowned Flycatcher Streak Headed Woodcreeper Gray and Gold Warbler Black and White Becard Collared Ant Shrike Streaked Flycatcher Turkey Vulture Great Green Macaw Greenish Elenea Rufous Browed Pepper Shrike Yellow Rump Casique
Our guide in Serro Blanco was Carlos. Anyone remember the name of our driver (I do)? After Serro Blanco we continue to the coast. We saw: Great Egret Northern Crested Caracara Punta Blanca (where we ate lunch by the beach) Magnificent Frigatebird** American Oystercatcher** Brown Pelican** Common Tern On the way to Andaluz Black Vulture Spotted Sandpiper And finally at Andaluz (where we spent two nights) Masked Water Tyrant                                                   Stream at Serro Blanco	Above: Uli finds a frog                                 Below: our guide Carlos
After lunch at Punta Blanca	Above and below: Andaluz
Above: the lodge at Andaluz              Below: it got much worse than shown in this picture	Monday May 5, 2008 Machalilla National Park Ayampe (we were "trucked" about a mile or two down the road from Andaluz to a stream at about 6am. We hiked up the stream with a guide our Rene). We saw the following: Spotted Woodcreeper Paraque Ecuadorian Thrush Yellow Tailed Oriole White Tipped Dove Lemon Rumped Tanager Streaked Flycatcher** Buff Throated Saltator Blue Gray Tanager** Guayaquil Woodpecker Gray Breasted Martin Red Masked Parakeet Barrons Hermit Pale Vented Pidgeon Yellow Bellied Elaenia Boat Billed Flycatcher Ecuadorian Ground Dove** Thick Billed Euphonia Canta La Piedra (I think there is where we got the bus stuck in the river ??) Scrub Blackbird** Thick Billed Euphonia** Black Cheeked Woodpecker Ecuadorian Thrush** Smoked Colored Pewee Tropical Gnatcatcher** Streaked Headed Woodcreeper** Pale Vented Pidgeon** Variable Seedeater** House Wren White Tipped Dove** Tumbes Pewee Tropical Gnatcatcher** Southern Beardless Tyrranulet Tropical Kingbird** Smooth Billed Ani Rufous Tailed Hummingbird and back to Andaluz for the evening...... Long Tailed Mockingbird Scrub Blackbird** Groove Billed Ani** Pacific Hornero
Left: Guide Rene with Bill Tuesday May 6, 2008 Aguas Blancas (the "historic" village) Long Tailed Mockingbird** Fasciated Wren** Blue Crowned Motmot Spotted Woodcreeper* Vermillion Flycatcher and on the road back to Guayaquil...... Northern Crested Caracara Snowy Egret Great Egret** Cattle Egret	Above: the historic village of Aguas Blancas Below: Paul translates for the museum guide
	Left: locals return with clean laundary in Aguas Blancas Below: Blue Crowned Motmot