Short-tailed Shearwaters in Corio Bay

Hi everyone The explosion of Short-tailed Shearwaters continues down the east and south-east coasts. I’ve been observing STSW over Corio Bay during the last two days – every time I’ve looked there have been birds visible. I wasn’t here over the weekend so I’m not sure when they arrived here. Yesterday I could only find birds flying. This afternoon there were about a dozen swimming close to the shore near the shell refinery, and all the way up into Limeburners’ lagoon. I haven’t walked the shoreline but I haven’t seen any dead birds washed up in the places I’ve looked. My wife saw about 60 beachwashed birds on Ocean Grove beach on Saturday – she thought they were all the same species. Russell Woodford Geelong =============================== 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 ===============================