After breakfast, we watched for birds from the deck of the lodge.
Ann, Carolyn, Lelis, Michael, Patty and Kannan (behind), Jerry

This was the day we discovered kapok trees in all their variety.

Our local guide, Leo

The view from the back deck of the lodge; the path to the left led to our cabins.

A Guayaquil Squirrel grabbed a piece of fruit for itself.

This Red-masked Parakeet was a rescue animal and stayed around the lodge.

A Yellow-tailed Oriole perched on one of the hummingbird feeders.

Several White-tailed Jays came to eat corn in the feeding area.

The iris of this White-tailed Jay was not as bright yellow as many we saw.

Plumbeous-backed Thrush

Ecuadorian Thrush

Amazilia Hummingbird with pollen on its head

Plumbeous-backed Thrush

Red bill of the Amazilia Hummingbird

Yellow and red flowered plant off the deck of the lodge

Plumbeous-backed Thrush

Note the white edge of the tail of the White-edged Oriole.

Yellow-tailed Oriole is yellow on the underside of the tail.

Guayaquil Squirrel

Male (blue) and female (brown) Blue Ground-Doves in the trees behind the feeders

Rufous-browed Peppershrike

White-tailed Jay

One White-tailed Jay was looking longingly at the piece of papaya the other had picked up.

Hey!

Two Guayaquil Squirrels

Pink flowers

Whooping Motmot

Plumbeous-backed Thrush

Ecuadorian Thrush

Rufous-headed Chachalaca

Rufous-browed Peppershrike in the bush

Long-billed Starthroat at a white flower

Grey-cheeked Parakeets are endemic to Ecuador.

Blue-gray Tanager

Don't know whether this Long-billed Starthroat had gotten tired or was just showing off his long bill by sitting on the branch below and reaching the flower.

Yellow-rumped Cacique

Rufous-headed Chachalacas on the feeder

Golden Grosbeak

White-tailed Jay

Male Blue Ground-Dove

Whooping Motmot

The turquoise crown of the Whooping Motmot

Ecuadorian Thrush

Female Blue Ground-Dove back in the trees

Rufous-headed Chachalaca in the top of a tree

Grey-and-gold Warbler, dubbed the "Doug James" warbler by Dr Kannan, who had just learned of his mentor's passing

White-tailed Jay

Acrobatic jay

One of many characterful kapok trees

Concrete had been poured in the tracks leading up the last steep hill to the lodge.

Entrance to Urraca Hotel where we stayed at Jorupe Reserve; we started our morning walk going right along the road from here.

Kapok tree in the distance

Carolyn photographs a kapok tree

White flower

Ann, Allen and Carolyn take in the kapok tree.

Leo (behind), Michael, Patty, Lelis and Kannan take the lead.

Mary, Carolyn, Bruce, Allan, Patricia and Ann take a photo break.

The object of their interest, this bent-over-the-road kapok tree

Empty seed pods of the kapok tree

This kapok tree looks like a long arm bent at the elbow.

A flash of gold from the Grey-and-gold Warbler

Grey-and-gold Warbler

Female Collared Antshrike back in the bush

Laughing Falcon

Swallow-tailed Kite

Turkey Vulture

Female Thick-billed Euphonia?

Patricia, Ann, Bruce, Jerry (behind), Michael, Allan, Patty, David (behind), Lelis, Mary, Kannan watching and waiting along the road

Tropical Pewee (Tumbes race)

Red seeds

Black seeds

Bromeliads galore

Male Collared Antshrike

King Vulture very high above us

Streak-headed Woodcreeper

Empty seed pod

Kapok tree cotton balls--formerly used in flotation devices

Kapok trees on the mountainside

Tropical Parula

Guayaquil Woodpecker

The Andes

Lelis took a photo of the group (we had some dropouts along the way this morning): Allan, Michael, Mary, Patty (behind), David, Jerry, Kannan, Steve, Leo

One of cabins behind a kapok tree

This kapok tree looks half elephant, half monster head

The road back to the lodge

Someone had dug out earthen steps up the edge of the embankment.

Grey-backed Hawk soaring overhead

We found the Laughing Falcon closer to the road on our return to the lodge.

Rufous-browed Peppershrike

Back at the lodge, we found a variety of butterflies on the tropical verbena.

Zebra butterfly

Long-tailed Skipper

Black-capped Sparrow in the feeder area

Female Scarlet-backed Woodpecker in the trees behind the feeders

Pacific Hornero (formerly Pale-legged Hornero)

"Cracker" moth camoflaging itself on a rock

Another Cracker moth on gray bark

Wasp at the water feature

Honeybees and a wasp getting a drink

Another bee species

The sign marking directions to the cabins had a gray creature made from tree limbs at its base.

Amazilia Hummingbird

White-tailed Jay

Whooping Motmot

Ecuadorian Thrush

Lime butterfly on tropical verbena

White-tailed Jay

Yellow-tailed Oriole

Pacific Hornero

Another moth variety

The underside of this moth has a different pattern and color.

Part of the map of Jocotoco Conservation Foundation properties in Ecuador

More Jocotoco Foundation properties

Wasps and bees at the water feature

Mary and Steve in front of Cabin #3

Steve on the deck of our cabin

Cabin #3 at Urraca Lodge, Jorupe Reserve, Ecuador

Orange flower

Zebra butterfly

Wild Red-masked Parakeet

Red-masked Parakeet

Barbara had seen a tinamou along the trail from the cabins to the lodge and I went out to look for it.

Pale-browed Tinamou poking in the leaves below the trail between the cabins and the lodge

Pale-browed Tinamou with pink legs

Tropical Pewee (Tumbes race)

Olivaceous Woodcreeper

Streaked Saltator

Grey-backed Hawk?

The Andes

On our late-afternoon walk, we went left at the bottom of the entrance road.

Dr Kannan was going all out trying to find an antpitta.

The game's afoot!

Bougainvillea

The group provides scale for another Kapok tree.

The after-photo photo

Mary with the Kapok tree

Ann with the Kapok tree

Scarlet-backed Woodpecker

Kannan showed us ant lion traps in the sand on the road.

Unopened seed pods

More seed pods

Back at the base of the road up to the lodge, we noticed the lodge sign high overhead.

Back at the lodge, David had one of the Rufous-headed Chachalacas eating out of his hand.