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| Torrent Ducks. Male on the left; female on the right |
An iron bridge to a property crosses the Rio Otún at a right angle to the road, Via la Suiza, leading into the Otún Quimbaya reserve. All birdwatching group stop there to see what they can see in the river. The river flows westward from the peaks of the Cordillera Central into the valley of the Rio Cauca. The Cauca flows northwards between the Cordillera Occidental and the Cordillera Central to join the Magdalena and then into the Caribbean.
The Torrent Duck (Merganetta armata) occurs) along the Andes with pairs holding territories. It does indeed live in and beside torrents. We first saw them along the Urubamba River which flows alongside the railway track from Cuzco to Macchu Picchu in Peru neasrly 25 years ago.
It is a matter of luck where the ducks may be out of the water during a brief stop. This pair was nowhere to be seen at first but then the male was seen climbing onto a faraway rock with the female following a short time later. Not an ideal spot for a photograph given the rocks that were nearer the bridge but never than no ducks at all.
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