Stephen's law strikes again!

Well, I made it back to Brussels after 24 hours of travelling, although my bag missed the connection in São Paulo and took a further 48 hours to reach me!  Back in 2013, each of the guides had a 'law' named after us, mine being that every guide sees something fantastic right at the very end of their stay.  My last week at the lodge was, however, rather underwhelming although another guide did help me to finally connect with my first Snethlage's Tody-tyrant, my 8th lifer of the season, on the other side of the Teles Pires, where it is fairly common but I rarely got to spend any amount of time.  I was guiding right up until my departure and took my last guests down to the Teles Pires for a final sunset, seeing two Lesser Nighthawks and a Black-backed Water-Tyrant on one of the river islands.  Both of these are very rare, and the former is not even on the Alta Floresta list, although they are both known to turn up there occasionally on migration.  On my last morning, I walked around the grounds of the Floresta Amazonica Hotel pre-breakfast, and then decided to have one last look after breakfast before packing my binoculars away.  Glimpsing a macaw before it landed out of sight, I instantly felt it was somehow different.  Sure enough, as I managed to locate it amongst the leaves it started calling much more deeply than any of the other local macaws, and I soon realised I was looking at a Hyacinth Macaw, which is extremely rare away from the Pantanal.  I even managed a couple of record shots, where you can just about make out the colouration and the distinctive yellow eye-ring.