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| Rio La Tovara near San Blas on the Pacific Coast of Mexico |
On our last day before leaving Mexico we had a boat trip at 4 pm which took us from our hotel in San Blas first to the mouth of the Rio Arroyo Grande and then through the mangroves lining the narrow Rio La Tovara. Night fell as cruised upstream and we returned in the dark. On the way out we saw a number of birds in the mangroves, including the three species of heron shown below. Even in daylight it was dark under the mangroves.
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| This Tricolored Heron Egretta tricolor was moving slowly on the lookout for fish |
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| Green Heron Butorides virescens also on the hunt |
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Boat-billed Heron Cochlearius cochlearius. One of a small group.
They often feed by night and eat anything that moves, from mammals to shrimps |
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| As darkness fell Snowy (Egretta thula) and Great (Ardea alba) Egrets were gathered to roost |
Seeing the aptly named Boat-billed Herons was appropriate seeing we were staying at a hotel—an excellent hotel—with the same name: the Garza Canela.
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