Good trip out from Cairns to the Cay on Seastar, great crew and very helpful with facilitating for the birders: Biggest surprise was a solitary Tahiti Petrel some way off to the N of the Cay, completely unexpected here as I almost never see pelagic seabirds on this trip. Great Frigatebird 2 Lesser Frigatebird 2 Brown Booby 20 ad and 2 imm,. much paler brown than shown in the Simpson & Day or Pizzey & Knight FG’s but sadly with the breast demarcation and yellowish-green legs. Crested Tern 20 (but no Lesser Crested) Little Tern 10 Sooty Tern 300 Brown Booby 50 Ruddy Turnstone 2 Reef Egret 1
Humpback Whale 1 female with calf, which breached very nicely several times, a great sight.
Phil Gregory
www. cassowary-house.com.au
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