Birding by boat
6th Jan: We drove to Rio Lagartos stopping to bird dry scrub where highlights included great views of Lesser Roadrunner and Yucatan Wren.
A short drive from here and we hit the coast at Coba. We quickly hire a boat complete with binocular totting captain and sped off into the shallow and lagoon fringed with mangroves. What a place heaving with birds! Waders, gulls, terns, herons, egrets, raptors you really did not know where to look first! The year list took a huge boost and we soaked up point blank views of such delights as Boat billed Heron, American Flamingoes, Laughing Falcon and a tiny Pygmy Kingfisher a lifer for us all. Our skipper really knew his birds and more importantly just where to find them. All to soon we were heading back and couldn’t believe that we had been out over two hours.
Posted 8.45 am 8.01.08