Yucatan Peninsula — Day 5 — Rio Lagartos

Birds, birds, birds. Rio Lagar­tos is another town at the end of the road, but this time on a lagoon. The area is known for bird­watch­ing, and it is another pro­tected Mex­i­can bios­phere reserve. Along with Celestun, this is one of the places to find large flamingo colonies. We didn’t see the thou­sands of flamin­gos that are some­times reported, but there were plenty and they are amazing.

After a some­what uncom­fort­able night due to the heat and humid­ity and weak fans, it wasn’t hard to wake up and get out the door before sun­rise for our bird­ing tour. Fan­tas­tic. Def­i­nitely one of the high­lights, although I think you can skip the pseudo-spa mud part and stay with the birds. I’ve tem­porar­ily mis­placed my sight­ing list, but some other high­lights that we saw but didn’t pho­to­graph are roseate spoon­bills, par­rots, and a raptor.

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Pel­i­can in town

Cor­morant dry­ing out

Sun­set off the dock

Sun­rise on the way out in the morning

Flamin­gos at sunrise

One-eyed croc­o­dile

Anhinga

blue heron perhaps

Flamin­gos high above

The 4 flamin­gos of the apocalypse.

the lone­li­ness of the white pelican

com­mon black hawk

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