A k a day in Lima Peru (Day 23)

 Sunday number 4 in the challenge. Once again we are on exercise only and there are no cars allowed (except for some authorised vehicles). It is great and crossing the road is a pleasure. It is super busy around the Pentagonito today again with the usual array of walkers, joggers, cyclists etc. The dancercise and boxercise classes are in full swing.

On the way we saw a few nicely manicured trees like this one. It is actually outside the property on the verge but I guess it is owned and maintained by the property owner.

We took a slightly different route today and managed to find a green area that was (relatively) teeming with birds. We saw numerous oasis hummingbirds but those little rascals are camera shy and although we did see them settle on branches they were not close enough to photograph. I must go back there with my better camera and tripod to try to get pictures of them. We saw numerous vermillion flycatchers in action catching their tasty morsels in mid air.

Tropical kingbird

The chap or chapess sitting on this post is the Tropical kingbird which is also a flycatcher only much bigger than our vermillion variety. It is at least twice the size of the red one almost blackbird size. To complete the trio we also saw a brown flycatcher catching flies but I am not quite sure what species it is. I am still trying to identify it. We also saw the following but without images. A bananaquit which looks pretty much like a blue tit, a blue grey tanager, and a wren like bird which might indeed be what they call a house wren.

Other observations this morning included the Lions Club and the Roll man. Every day the bread man comes with rolls which are very popular. His three wheeled bike has seen a few more km than our walks methinks.

The Lions Club

The roll man!

The newly discovered area is also home to some allotments where a bit of local small scale horticulture is going on. We did find a couple of curious objects. Have a look at this object and see what you think it might be. It is made of glass and is full of rocks.

I suspect it is to collect water from the atmosphere but I am prepared to be declared ludicrously wrong. The second odd looking objects are those in the following picture. I am not sure if they contain water or maybe they are composters. They seem to have something growing on the outside.

You can see in this area that the river is actually uncovered for quite a bit of the way. It shows just how much water is flowing underneath the footpaths whilst the unsuspecting pedestrian ambles his way along.

OK hope that you enjoyed todays Sunday walk. We are now heading into the final week of the challenge. It only remains for me to add the strava. Bye bye from San Borja.