Hi I just sent the entry below for submission to Birding Aus but I don’t think the link is working. It is Bill Stents’ dropbox,
Sorry to be a pain, Jeanie
From: Jeanie Churchward [mailto:ijchurchie@bigpond.com] Sent: Tuesday, 29 January 2013 9:04 PM To: birding-aus@lists.vicnet.net.au Subject: Presents from Cyclone Ozwald at Dundowran Beach, Hervey Bay, QLD
Hi every one, Myn husband, Ian and I live on the beach at Dundowran which is just north of Hervey Bay. Saturday night, the 26th, January was a night of little sleep for us – we experienced extremely wild, destructive winds with trees coming down, a huge king tide that made quite a mess of the beach and an incredible amount of rain. However, I’m sure lots of people experienced this and worse but on Sunday morning as we surveyed our newly acquired moat and lake we were surprised by the many unique presents that Cyclone Ozwald had blown in.
First, we saw 2 common noddies fly past – now that is a strange thing to see in our area so there was a mad panic for the bincos and camera. The next surprise was all the terns we found sheltering from the winds in our yard – not our usual fare of Caspian or Crested Terns but after looking at various resources we think they are either Bridled or Sooty Terns – from my photos (see the link below) we are leaning more towards Bridled Tern. However, I really don’t know so I would appreciate some help please.
On the low tide we raced down to the beach to discover quite a few other birds that had obviously been blown in – probably from the islands offshore I would assume. We were quite excited to see 3 Frigatebirds patrolling up and down the beach – I finally got some photos of them but unfortunately due to the appalling light conditions they are not very good but I’m hoping someone will be able to identify which Frigatebird this is. Both Black and Common Noddies were abundant on the beach and in the trees along with our usual waders.
At one point when the tide was on its way back in again we spotted another interesting bird – see photos 4 and 5. This bird was the only one of its species on the beach and it appeared to be very exhausted. At first I thought it was a juvenile Pacific or Kelp Gull but looking at the photos I took and comparing them to other information and drawings I’m inclined to think it could be a Pomarine Jaeger. I looked at the facial markings and the markings on the wings when the bird was in flight – there is a photo on the link of the bird standing on the beach and when it flew off but unfortunately the flight photo is not in focus but I added it to the link anyway in the hopes it will help someone positively identify my bird.
Please view my photos on the following link
https://www.dropbox/sh/jx231gscnwdskjk/Do9EqCntix
I just wanted to say thankyou to Bill Stent who helped me with posting my photos – Bill kindly put my photos on his dropbox so everyone can view them,
Thanks again, Bill
Looking forward to hearing your views,
Jeanie Churchward
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