Baja Sur: Todos Santos (Part two)
Birding around Todos Santos never got old. There was plenty to see near our Airbnb and plenty to see if we drove just outside of town. One afternoon we walked back down to the beach before sunset and caught up with some fun birds.
Hooded Orioles were ridiculously common
Gray Thrashers were also super easy to find
Lizard
It's not every day you see a kid wearing your favorite team's shirt:
In the spot where we had seen a pile of Xantus's Hummingbirds a couple days earlier we instead found a bossy male Costa's.
When we arrived at the beach we saw bunch of folks lined up for the release of sea turtle hatchlings by Tortugueros Las Playitas. They incubate thousands of the sea turtle eggs every year and when they hatch they release them at sunset on the beach. I had thought it was only Pacific leatherback sea turtles but on their website I learned they do the same for Olive Ridley and Black sea turtles that also nest on Todos Santos beaches.
At least 14 hatchlings released th…
Hooded Orioles were ridiculously common
Gray Thrashers were also super easy to find
Lizard
It's not every day you see a kid wearing your favorite team's shirt:
In the spot where we had seen a pile of Xantus's Hummingbirds a couple days earlier we instead found a bossy male Costa's.
When we arrived at the beach we saw bunch of folks lined up for the release of sea turtle hatchlings by Tortugueros Las Playitas. They incubate thousands of the sea turtle eggs every year and when they hatch they release them at sunset on the beach. I had thought it was only Pacific leatherback sea turtles but on their website I learned they do the same for Olive Ridley and Black sea turtles that also nest on Todos Santos beaches.
At least 14 hatchlings released th…
