Birdline Northern Territory Weekly Update

Birdline Northern Territory Published sightings for the week ending 28 Oct 2014. Mon 27 Oct White wagtail Lee Point Hi all, This morning at around 6:05 AM I saw a white wagtail at Lee Point. It was a very short encounter, I entered the beach at 5:55 and was looking at some sandplovers on the rocks near the entrance. I then walked further on the beach heading to Buffelo Creek for the shorebird count. on the right of the entrance of the beach you have a line of casuarina trees and I was about halfway those trees when the white wagtail flew towards me. It was still pretty dark because sunrise was a couple of minutes later. The bird flew at a height of about 5-7 metres in its typical undulating flight (up-down) and called with it’s typical “dzip” every time it was at its lowest point of it’s flight. tail was relatively long and slim. wings were pretty wide and it had a short head. I’m a Dutch Intern at CDU and see white wagtails (I know different subspec. but silhouette and sound are still the same) on a daily basis back home and I see them very often flying over like the bird did this morning. In short: I’m 100% sure it was a white wagtail. I don’t no how often there are white wagtails in Darwin but if not, I hope you guys are able to find it again. Cheers Coen van Tuijl