After a long time, MagAO-X has arrived at Las Campanas, bringing the full team and others partners. It is a crowd that keep you alert all night long.
This past Summer 2024 we were visited by several “friends” coming from the valley and also from high mountains. Apart from burros, vizcachas, we had “crias de cóndor y guanaco”, also a solitaire zorro.
They were flying over our heads and moving around us without caution as if they knew we were not going to hurt them.
The condors are young as you can notice, on the neck will became a thick white collar and the guanaco, more than five at that time, you can see the fur is curly, later it will became smooth keeping almost the same colour.
This zorro was looking for something to eat, I can imagine, far from his home.
As you can see on these pictures and videos, they look so magnificent living on their natural environment, clear blue skies, pure air.
Guanacos were protected by others adult guanacos. Condors, we did not see adults, those are rare to came down.
There were almost four months of warm days and pleasant nights. It would explain why so many “visitors” we received.
And we still can see all of them around the site !!!
Some of those are here:
I have you to enjoy the song of the day, which is of course, El cóndor pasa.
It is a well known song whose original version from 1963 belongs to Los Incas voices. Remind you the Andes mountains, here at South America, involves the whole latin america people at this side of the world.
EL CÓNDOR PASA (VERSIÓN ORIGINAL)- LOS INCAS