Anyone ever bird Baja Sur?

[blindpig]

I'm heading down there in a couple of days for what is primarily a reptile hunting/photo trip. Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

We'll be in the Cape region for the most part as that's where the endemic reptiles are concentrated.

I've been to the Sonora region on several occasions so I've racked up much of the common stuff but am hoping that I might get some pelargic stuff like boobys and maybe some Pacific migrants.

[semillama]

1. apparently not.

so you'll have to tell us all about it!

[blindpig]

2. oh well

guess I'll just have to wing it.

[blindpig]

3. OK, I'm back

Not the best of trips. 1st day in had a 10 year storm, all of the streets La Paz were rivers, manholes flying open spewing geysers of water. Temps 77-51F, good for gringos but bad for reptile hunters. Due to various constraints we seldom got out early or made it into the higher elevations. Anyway, here is the trip list:

Eared Grebe
Brown Pelican
Double Crested Comorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Reddish Egret
Little Blue Heron
Tricolor Heron
Green Heron
Yellow Crowned Night Heron
White Faced Ibis
White Ibis
Turkey Vulture
Red Tailed Hawk
Osprey
Cooper Hawk
Crested Caracara
American Kestrel
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon
California Quail
American Coot
Black Bellied Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
Black-Necked Stilt
Greater Yellowlegs
Spotted Sandpiper
Whimbrel
Long Billled Curlew
Marbled Godwit
Willet
Western Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Califonnia Gull
Western Gull
Yellow Footed Gull
Laughing Gull
Royal Tern
Rock Dove
Mourning Dove
White Winged Dove
Ground Dove
Greater Roadrunner
Great Horned Owl
Common Poorwill
White Throated Swift
Xanthus Hummingbird
Costa's Hummingbird
Gila Woodpecker
Ladder back Woodpecker
Gilded Flicker
Magnificent Frigate bird
Gray Flycatcher
Cassins Kingbird
Says Phoebe
Black Phoebe
Ash Throated Flycatcher
Loggerhead Shrike
Cassins Vireo
Scrub Jay
Common Raven
Tree Swallow
Verdin
Cactus Wren
Blue Gray Gnatcatcher
Hermit Thrush
Northern Mockingbird
Gray Thrasher
Phainopepla
Starling
Blackthroated Gray Warbler
Black Headed Grosbeak
Lark Sparrow
Rufus Crowned Sparrow
Hooded Oriole
Scotts Oriole
House Finch
House Sparrow

Also saw 18 species of reptile, a pretty sorry showing for Baja, none of the sun lovers like rattlers and desert iguanas. Saw lots of pack rats, rock squirrel, deer mouse, some blacktailed jackrabbit and a few desert cottontail. One Coyote. More centroides(sp?) scorpions than you could believe and desert centipedes as thick as stick pretzels. The flora is unique.

I've done better, I've done worse.

See it now before gringos screw it up entirely.