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The estuary at San Jose Del Cabo

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For me, the southernmost end of the Baja, is all about the estuary in nearby San Jose Del Cabo. A big surprise was a Northern Harrier hunting along the waterway. I was sitting in an improvised hide, photographing a small group of Ruddy Ducks, when just a few yards behind them, a Sora just sort of swam out into the open!

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Foreign Languages on a Birding Trip

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while the rest of the group took a hike. At some stage, almost standing still in a traffic jam on the highway towards San Jose, I was calling a fellow 10K beat writer Pat O’Donnell, enquiring about the chances to meet in my hotel. from London was part of my group. Yes, he could have played dumb, but I wasn’t any smarter.

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