A week of decent NW & W’ly winds, including 40-60knt winds from about 11pm-3am last night, saw Nigel Jackett and I head down to Cape Naturaliste (near Dunsborough, SW WA for B-Aussers) for a seawatch. We equalled the record for tubenose species seen on recent Cape Nat seawatches (12 sp) but unfortunately didn’t manage anything too exciting. Good amount of action though, a Wandering Albatross, a White-faced Storm-Petrel, and a high Shy Albatross count (for SW WA at least) Totals Wandering Albatross [sp.] (1 – closest to Plumage D in Onley and Scofield but a bit darker, with less defined cap and mostly dark rump. Most likely Gibson’s or Tristan) Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross (42) Black-browed Albatross (7 – 3 adult) Shy Albatross (43, all ages) Southern Giant-Petrel (1) Northern Giant-Petrel (3) Giant-Petrel sp. (5) Great-winged Petrel (2+ – likely more, very difficult to easily pick amongst the shearwaters) Soft-plumaged Petrel (2) Flesh-footed Shearwater (~1,200) Wedge-tailed Shearwater (200+, quite possibly more) Hutton’s Shearwater (~1,000) White-faced Storm-Petrel (1) Brown Skua (1) Bridled Tern (3) Cheers, John =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au http://birding-aus.org ===============================
|
||||
|
Comments are closed. |
||||
