Fwd: Birdline Cocos Keeling Islands Weekly Update

This is a new one that’ll be included with the weekly batch. Peter Shute Sent from my iPad Begin forwarded message: From: “notifications@eremaea.comnotifications@eremaea.com>” <notifications@eremaea.comnotifications@eremaea.com>> Date: 13 January 2014 4:01:26 am AEDT To: “birding-aus@birding-aus.orgbirding-aus@birding-aus.org>” <birding-aus@birding-aus.orgbirding-aus@birding-aus.org>> Subject: Birdline Cocos Keeling Islands Weekly Update Birdline Cocos Keeling Islands Published sightings for the week ending 12 Jan 2014. Mon 30 Dec Bulwer’s Petrel West Island The managers of Cocos Village Bungalows were sat on their verandah at 7.30 pm on 30.12.13 when they decided to pop inside and top up their drinks. A few minutes later they were back outside and found this little petrel sitting there exhausted.. He must have seen their light and flown to it from the ocean. They gave me a ring and I went round to collect him for a rest on our verandah in a box overnight. Whilst in the box he liked to bury his head in the towel we put in there. Next morning we took him to Horsburgh Island because we didn’t want to leave him by himself while we were out for the day.I put him in the sea once we arrived on Horsburgh thinking he would like a drink. His little legs started to paddle and whoosh! off he went. into the atoll, flying just above the water. Pam Jones Birdline Cocos Keeling Islands is hosted by Eremaea Birds. _______________________________________________ Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or unsubscribe visit: http://birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org