The advice given to us was to get to the ferry early in the morning to ensure that you can cross without any problems. So that was what we did, although it did use up a mornings birding, it ensured that our travel from Pelotas to our next stop, the Lagoa do Peixe National Park would continue unhindered. We narrowly missed the 07:00 ferry, but fortunately only had to wait an hour before the next crossing at 08:00. The hour on the boat did not provide too much in the way of birding, although we did get our only Little Blue Heron of the trip.
We arrived in Lagoa do Peixe late-morning, so headed
straight to the beach to look for some shorebirds. And there were plenty,
although common species it gave us a taste of what was to come over the next
few days. So, we headed back to our new lodging, in the small town of Tavares
and tucked into some lunch while we waited for the midday heat to subside.
In the afternoon we headed to another area of the park. Here
was not on the beach, but instead on the shoreline of the slowly drying shallow
lagoon. We had been told that it was possible to cross the lagoon by car and
access another area of the beach, so that is what we tried to do. However, this
was very, very foolish and to nobody's surprise our car got stuck in the mud. We
tried all evening but could not get it out, and after a few calls, we resigned
ourselves to leaving the car overnight and dealing with it in the morning.
This was not an ideal development, for sure. We did see a few nice birds in-between moments of despair, including my first Wilsons Phalaropes, and added Bay-capped Wren-Spinetail to our trip list. In the morning we arranged for the vice-mayor to use his tractor to try pull the car our, so fingers crossed that comes together and we can continue with our birding without any further unexpected setbacks…
Lagoa do Peixe National Park: Coscoroba Swan, Feral Pigeon, Eared Dove, White-backed Stilt, American Oystercatcher, American Golden Plover, Southern Lapwing, Semipalmated Plover, Sanderling, White-rumped Sandpiper, Buff-breasted Sandpiper, Pectoral Sandpiper, Wilson's Phalarope, Greater Yellowlegs, Lesser Yellowlegs, Brown-hooded Gull, Grey-headed Gull, Kelp Gull, Yellow-billed Tern, Large-billed Tern, Snowy-crowned Tern, Royal Tern, Black Skimmer, Wood Stork, Neotropic Cormorant, Cocoi Heron, Great Egret, Snowy Egret, White-faced Ibis, Bare-faced Ibis, Roseate Spoonbill, Crested Caracara, Chimango Caracara, Monk Parakeet, Bay-capped Wren-Spinetail, Brown-chested Martin, White-rumped Swallow, House Sparrow, Correndera Pipit, Brown-and-yellow Marshbird, Grassland Yellow Finch,
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