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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