It has become fashionable in recent years to feed anpittas, following the remarkable success of the original 'antpitta whisperer', Angel Paz near Mindo. San Isidro cottoned onto this method quickly, and so another tricky antpitta suddenly became gettable. I visited there just a short time after they begun this process so was unsure what to expect, I certainly did not expect this brazen bird showing on a trail long enough to get these digiscoped shots. Looking back it is easy to forget that this was once widely touted as one of the most difficult of all the antpittas, my sole views prior to this being far from satisfactory flashes of rufous as the bird raced across the trail at lightning pace, at the same venue. How times have changed, undoubtedly for the better.