So, just
after nine days at home (including a quick trip to Portland), I began my annual
Baja California tour.
The
relatively cool, dry weather and birds busily but quietly going about their overwintering
activities was quite a change from the wet tropics. We began the tour at the San
José del Cabo Estuary.
We saw all
the endemics very quickly, and towards the end of the tour took a boat ride on
Magdalena Bay. Gray Whales didn’t come right up to our boat, but we had good
views despite the very windy and wavy conditions.
On our boat
trip, two of us getting in and out of the boat to go to the bathroom on a beach
didn’t handle the waves very well. Both of us fell into an incoming wave, which
destroyed my camera. So when we had our best views of the endemic Gray Thrasher
on our last morning near Todos Santos, I couldn’t resist taking another photo,
even thought it had to be with my mobile phone through the Zeiss spotting scope.
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