We went to Refugio Paz de las Aves and hiked to the Cock-of-the-Rock lek. We saw several of the males from the observation deck.

Male Cock-of-the-Rock

A few of us stayed at the observation deck after the others left. The sun broke through and one of the birds sat in the open for a while.

Male Cock-of-the-Rock

On the way back from the lek, Andres pointed out a female Golden-headed Quetzal.

Then a second quetzal appeared

Mountain Wren
As we were walking back up from the lek, we got to the top of the trail and the wren was flying back and forth across our path.

Blue-and-white Swallows
on the power line above us at the parking lot

Yellow-bellied Seedeater
in a tree near the parking lot

White-collared Swifts
about 45 flew overhead

White-tailed Tyrannulet
in a tree at the edge of the parking lot

Red-billed Parrot
in a distant tree

Red-billed Parrot

Swallow-tailed Kite

Swallow-tailed Kite

Yellow-breasted Antpitta
Andy directed Carlos to drive us to the site where his father Rodrigo was coaxing the bird into view.

The family had named this bird Wilhelmina.

Giant Antpitta
From one antpitta to another: we drove to another spot, then hiked down a steep, muddy trail to see Maria, the Giant Antpitta.

Andy took photos for several of us through his spotting scope using our phones.

Andy took photos for several of us through his spotting scope using our phones.

Digiscoped photo taken by Andy

Farther along up the trail, as we were returning to the road, Angel pointed out this Crested Guan.

Crested Guan

Violet-tailed Sylph (L), Andean Emerald (C), Green-crowned Brilliant (R), Buff-tailed Coronet (above R)
The refuge staff took us to a pavilion with feeders around its perimeter, while we waited for them to locate another antpitta.

Fawn-breasted Brilliant (L), Violet-purple Coronet (behind), Violet-tailed Sylph (C), Fawn-breasted Brilliant (R), and two Buff-tailed Coronets

Two Violet-tailed Sylphs (L), Fawn-breasted Brilliant (R)

Two Violet-tailed Sylphs

Speckled Hummingbird

Blue-winged Mountain Tanager

Buff-tailed Coronet

Violet-purple Coronet

Violet-purple Coronet

Violet-purple Coronet (L), claiming the feeder high ground from the Violet-tailed Sylph (R)

Speckled Hummingbird on pink verbena

We got a brief look at the Azara's Spinetail before it did its usual vanishing act.

Purple-bibbed Whitetip

Oh, so you wanted to see my purple bib? Here you go.

The Andean Emerald always seems to sit up so erectly after it's been feeding, like it's posing.

Back of the Violet-purple Coronet

And like the other coronets, it likes to spread its wings when it lights.

Violet-purple Coronet

And another front view

Montane Woodcreeper

The female Violet-tailed Sylph has a little of the forehead color, but otherwise is quite different from the male, in color and shape.

Andean Emerald

Fawn-breasted Brilliant, showing off its pinkish gorget

Andy spotted this Marble-faced Bristle-Tyrant in a tree above the pavilion.

Marble-faced Bristle-Tyrant
One of Dawn's favorite birds of the day. The name does have a ring to it.

Andy took this digiscope photo of the Marble-faced Bristle-Tyrant through his scope, using my Pixel phone camera, and you can see the 'bristles' around the bird's bill.

Common Potoo
To further occupy/entertain us while we waited for another antpitta to be found, we went back to the Cock-of-the-Rock lek trail to see this potoo. I wondered whether it had been there when we walked by earlier in the low light of morning.

Common Potoo

Common Potoo

Common Potoo
Digiscope photo taken by Andy, using his scope and my Pixel phone camera

Chestnut-crowned Antpitta
We finally got the word that another antpitta had been found, so we loaded on the bus and rode to an steep overlook at the edge of the road, where Rodrigo, Andy's father, was calling out the bird. This one was named Andreita.

Rodrigo put worms on a stump to coax Andreita to come out for us to see her better.

Nadine went down the trail to a point above Rodrigo to get a better photo of the bird with her phone camera.

Andreita, the Chestnut-crowned Antpitta of Refugio Paz de las Aves

Lyre-tailed Nightjar
Andres had one last surprise for us at Refugio Paz de las Aves: as we were leaving, we stopped at the favorite perching spot of the Lyre-tailed Nightjar.

Partially-opened eye of the nightjar, with its bill to the right

It took some of us a while to realize those were the bird's two tail feathers below the branch and not a couple of long, drooping leaves.

Purple-throated Woodstars (L) and Andean Emeralds (R)
We stopped for lunch at Mirador Guaycapi and ate on their patio, that was surrounded by feeders.

Andean Emerald

Crowned Woodnymph

Perched Purple-throated Woodstar

Andean Emerald

Andean Emerald (L), Rufous-tailed Hummingbird (R)

Rufous-tailed Hummingbird

Rufous-tailed Hummingbird

Male Purple-throated Woodstar

Two Purple-throated Woodstars perching near the feeders

Purple-throated Woodstar

Female Thick-billed Euphonia

Rufous-tailed Hummingbird

Green-crowned Brilliant

Golden-bellied Flycatcher
perched high in a tree above the patio

Green-crowned Brilliant

Crowned Woodnymph