3063 February 18, 2015, Chiclayo, Peru — Gunnar, Glenn and I found ourselves with an extra day in central Peru after our flight out of Huanuco was canceled yesterday. We spent a productive hour and a half this morning birding along a dirt track near the Carpish Tunnel, and I saw more than a dozen new montane forest birds, including a nice Bar-bellied Woodpecker and the endemic Peruvian Wren, and a few I'd already seen, with great looks at a Golden-billed Saltator. I would have happily stayed there all day, but Gunnar decided that we should drive back to Lima today (9+ hours) rather than fly there (40 minutes) to avoid another possible flight cancelation before our connection from Lima to northern Peru this evening. This meant that we did no birding today after 9 a.m.; instead we spent the entire day driving over the Andes, and I watched half of Peru slide past out the van’s window. Truck traffic was heavy and we didn’t get to Lima until after dark. The day was mostly a...