Sunday, January 27, 2008

Coyotes and Ibis in the Mangrove Lagoon



A couple miles east of the little town of Magdalena, follow the tide into the mouth of the estuary, and you enter a wonderland of shore birds, twisting waterways, and steep sand dunes that transition into dark overhanging mangroves. We saw egrets, herons, kingfishers, ducks, grebes, curlews, ibis, others we weren’t able to identify. Even in our kayaks, we scraped bottom and had to get out and walk a couple of times. The water was deep by the time it got too thick to make our way through the hanging mangrove roots, however.

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