Field notes: Catalogue, journal, and species accounts, v507
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29. 20d La Paz Bay -- at La Gavota Island in La Paz Bay. This is a Man-o-War Bird nesting site but of course nothing there now. The rocks, sq on the W side, are covered with guano. There are good sized cacti and some other vegetation on the ridge's east side. There was no sign of nests, but occasional skeletal elements, of both birds & fish. Landbirds were scarce -- Anna Hummingbird and House Finch were all I saw. Around the island, and on the way back, saw: Blue Fisted Booby, Turkey Vulture, Brown Pelican, and Man-o-War Bird, Western Gull, Great Blue Heron, Snowy? Egret, Double- crested Cormorant, and 2 kinds of Tern. After an hour or so here, went to the S end of Espiritu Santo Island, Baja Calif, Mexico. Bob & I landed here at 11:30, to be picked up by the other boat sometime later. The beach at the S end of this island opens onto a broad plain which rises gradually to a low ridge. At this ridge one sees another, narrower, valley at rt angles, going to the shore to mangrove swamp at one way, back into the mountains the other. The first plain is covered with sparse, open vegetation, seldom over waist high except for the tall cacti. The ground is rocky, red rocks on land, black rocks on the beach. Walking thru the plain, we flushed several of the Black Jack-Rabbits. Lizards were abundant. There were few birds -- exactly