dear Birders, The White-rumped Sandpiper had moved this morning to the beach at Lake Wollumboola from Shoalhaven heads where it was first found on Monday. It was seen in the water on the edge of the Lake close to the area fenced off for nesting Terns and Oystercatchers. It seemed to be coming and going a bit as it had flushed just before we arrived mid morning and did not reappear until around 12:30. It arrived back at essentially the same place it had been originally. Sadly the news of the new of the relocation came not through good old reliable Birding-Aus but through some new fanged thing called facepull or the like! regards Peter Marsh
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Hi Brian and Meg We drove down from Sydney last Friday and arrived about 2.00 on a hot day. We walked the lake beach up to the swampy end and apart from lots of Red-necked stints and Red-capped plovers there was no sign of much else. We walked to the sign about fox baiting and turned around and every thing changed. First point the lake is not currently connected to the sea and is not obviously tidal. Second the action around 3.00 is pretty much 400 metres from the car park, lake side and opposite the first isolated small grassy dune between the beach and the lake. Here we saw and photographed a Grey Plover. Then having given up on the WRS I was taking photos of some other lifers, which had “turned” up, 3 White-winged Black Terns. As I was taking the photos they moved revealing the WRS on the shoreline. As others have pointed out he/she is easily approached within reason. Stand still and he/she is a bit of a show off. Took many photos, some show a diagnostic yellow mark at the base of the bill. There was also one very fine Caspian Tern with a red flag on its leg. Anyone out there know what a red flag on a Caspian Tern with the number “85” means? Cheers Chris Gregory
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Hi Christina. Margeret Reidy and I saw it at about 10:00 am this morning. It was feeding in the open on the lake’s edge until the wind came up and then it settled into a hollow in the sand closer to the Little Tern enclosure with some RFed-necked Stints. There were quite a few other birders there all of whom saw it and no doubt got some great shots of the bird. Happy birding. On 17-Jan-15 5:20 PM, christinaport@iinet.net.au wrote:
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