Feeders and blinds

Before setting off along the trails, an early morning visit to the forest blind may provide you with superb views of Scaled Antpitta, White-throated Quail-Dove, Immaculate Antbird, Chestnut-capped Brush-Finch, and Russet-crowned Warbler.  Other antpittas and Rufous-breasted Antthrush are sometimes seen from the hide. A ten-minute walk down to the village could add White-capped Dipper and Ecuadorian Thrush to your list, and continuing along the old Nono–Mindo road in either direction will give you a chance of more tanager flocks, Andean Cock-of-the-Rock, Beautiful Jay, and open-country birds such as seedeaters, grassquits, Olive-crowned Yellowthroat, and Black-winged Saltator.  If you are out on the road at dusk, spectacular male Lyre-tailed Nightjars can sometimes be seen hunting overhead.