Heron Island

I had a recent family holiday on Heron Island and made the most of the birding and photographic opportunities. While the number of species was quite small, the large numbers of some of the species and their being used to human presence, gave some excellent photo opportunities. Living among the breeding Black Noddy colony was an amazing experience . A nesting Noddy 1 metre from your head as you walked along the paths within the resort became normal. Unfortunately we were too early for the Wedge-tailed Shearwater. The most exciting and unexpected tick for me occurred while snorkelling in the wreck, which was taken to the island decades ago to act as a breakwater. I came up for a look, and 3 metres away were 2 Roseate Terns sitting among Crested Terns. The moment was shared by my wife and 3 children. I have uploaded my photos to a SmugMug gallery, with some underwater photos by my wife Vicki and some above water marine species by my son James, to show the complete Heron Island experience. http://birdsnmore.smugmug.com/Heron-Island Cheers, Rob Hamilton Margate, Tasmania =============================== 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 ===============================