Roly and Helen went off on a trip to the Barrier Reef whilst Dawn and I stayed home for a relaxing day. Back on the veranda of the tree-house I watched the local birds, an Osprey flew up carrying a fish and circled high over the hillside, I pondered on what the fish could be thinking? - having just been snatched from its watery-world into the suffocating air and taken to a great height before passing away, maybe he felt like an Hare Chrishna who is yanked into heaven by his pony tail just as he dies.
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| Welcome Swallow - a bit like a Barn Swallow |
Looking up at a large number of White-rumped Swiftlets I noticed some all black swifts with deep forked tails, they turned our to be Fork-tailed Swifts, another lifer and a good bird for the area.
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| BLACK-NECKED STORK |
I walked onto the exposed sand and mud-bars and scoped a good variety of waders and notched up another lifer in the shape of a Greater Sand Plover. Back on the banks of the river a nice margin of mud became exposed and I scoped the far bank where the mangrove swamp came up to the edge of the water. There I added a few more birds for the trip list and two more lifers: Black-necked Stork (formerly Jabiru) and Beach Stone Curlew.
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| THE VIEW LOOKING BACK FROM THE MOUTH OF THE RIVER BARRON |
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| GREATER SAND PLOVER |
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| GREATER SAND PLOVER BEHIND A RED-CAPPED PLOVER - I put this photo in to show the difference in sizes, the Red-capped is about the size of a Kentish Plover |
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| COMMON TERN - RACE Longipennis |
bird list from Redden island mud flats
EASTERN CURLEW
WHIMBRELBAR-TAILED GODWIT
GREY-TAILED TATTLER
GREAT KNOT
MARSH SANDPIPER
RED-CAPPED PLOVER
PACIFIC GOLDEN PLOVER
GREATER SAND PLOVER
RED-NECKED STINT
SHARP-TAILED SANDPIPER
BLACK-NECKED STORK
BEACH STONE-CURLEWSTRIATED HERON
CASPIAN TERN
COMMON TERN GULL-BILLED TERN
SILVER GULL
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