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Hi Edwin
I spent the Easter weekend in the Shoalhaven area (150 km
south of Sydney) and also visited Lake Wollumboola, a few times, plus various
other spots thereabouts.
I'd say there were 2000 black swans - an amazing sight. Other
birds I saw:
Caspian Terns (6)
Crested Terns (16)
White Fronted Chats (25)
Red-capped Plovers (15)
Sea Eagles (4)
Pelicans (250+)
Little Black Cormorants (100)
Little Pied Cormorants (50)
Grey and Chestnut Teal (2-3000)(in mixed flocks)
Great Egret (1)
Red-whiskered Bulbul (14) (at the southern end of its
range)
Some other birds seen this
Easter:
Godwits (I assume
bar-tailed) (70)
Eastern Curlews
(30)
Pied Oystercatchers
(13)
Sooty Oystercatcher(1)
Gannets (10) diving just beyond the surf.
Little Corellas(150)
Rufous Fantail
(1)
White-headed pigeons
(2)
Boobook (1 dead beside the road)
Artic Jaegar (3) at Gerroa
Kelp Gulls (2) at Kiama Blowhole.
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|\ Andrew
Patrick
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CBOC Publicity Officer
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/ Cumberland Bird Observers'
Club
o Sydney, (PO Box 550 Baulkham
Hills
1755)
NSW,
Australia
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