Birdpedia – Australia – Weekly Digest

The following is a digest of Sightings Reported on Birdpedia for the period Monday, January 19, 2015 to Sunday, January 25, 2015: Area: SA Location: Port Clinton Yorke Peninsula Grey-tailed Tattler (Heteroscelus brevipes) (2) Birds were resting on edge of mangroves on the high tide Reported by: Winston Syson on Tuesday, January 20, 2015 ——————————————— Date: Tuesday, January 20, 2015 Location: Mac’s Beach Yorke Peninsula Red Knot (Calidris canutus) (220) Birds were feeding on falling tide. Bar-tailed Godwit (Limosa lapponica) (94) Feeding on falling tide. Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres) (62) feeding on top of beached washed seaweed along with Sharp-tailed S/P and red-necked stint Reported by: Winston Syson on Tuesday, January 20, 2015 ——————————————— Date: Tuesday, January 20, 2015 Location: Port Wakeifeld Caravan Park Nankeen Night Heron (Nycticorax caledonicus) (34) Birds flew out of Mangroves behind Caravan Park. Common Sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos) (1) Single bird on rocks in the channel behind Caravan Park. Reported by: Winston Syson on Wednesday, January 21, 2015 ——————————————— Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 Location: Samphire flats behind Thomson Beach Lesser Sand Plover (Charadrius mongolus) (8) Birds were roosting in Samphire waiting for tide to recede, along with Red-necked Stint and recapped Plover Reported by: Winston Syson on Wednesday, January 21, 2015 ——————————————— Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 Location: Port Clinton Yorke Peninsula Grey-tailed Tattler (Heteroscelus brevipes) (1) 3 birds feeding on high tide near Mangroves northern end of beach photographs taken. Reported by: Winston Syson on Wednesday, January 21, 2015 ——————————————— Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 Location: Petrel Court Thomson beach Common Greenshank (Tringa nebularia) (110) Birds were resting under Mangroves. Reported by: Winston Syson on Wednesday, January 21, 2015 ——————————————— Date: Saturday, January 24, 2015 Location: Willaston Black-chinned Honeyeater (Melithreptus gularis) (1) Periodic sightings (and more often heard calling) of one or two of this species in urban garden settings at the end of Robinson Road in the Willaston area, ~750m NW of the redgum lined North Para River channel. Interested to learn of other sightings from this area . . . Reported by: Terry Dennis on Sunday, January 25, 2015 ——————————————— Need more information about a sighting? Login and contact the poster directly. Receive sightings via email or SMS immediately they are posted. Not a member of Birdpedia? Membership is free and gives you access to information for over 230 countries. To sign up go to the Birdpedia Web Site (http://www.birdpedia.com/). To find out more about Birdpedia and what it can do for you, see ‘What is Birdpedia?’ ———————————————