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g'day all,
I thank Niven for confirming the Long-toed Stint
photos.
Today, I took Ian Clayton (Birds & Bush
Tours, Townsville) and Barry & Margie Hawthorne from Sth Africa
to the well kept secret ..Wide Bay, Lake Moondarra.
Bingo !
The Long-toed Stints were still present
giving Ian & the visitors a lifer.
Ian confirmed the other look alikes were Red-necked
Stints as I thought.
But wait, that is not all
Also present, were at least 100 Oriental
Plovers (which gave me a tick)
And, there is still more !
As we leaving we identified two American Golden
Plover amongst the Oriental P
(These were previously called Lesser Golden or Pacific
Golden.)
Last year I saw a pair in harder to identify eclipse plumage
and it was not until I took some video of one with lifted wings and no dark
armpits did I disqualify it as a Grey P.
And running around every where were Australian
Pratincoles, Red-capped Plovers and a few Richard's
Pipits.
Out on the water amongst the usual water fowl were a few
Freckled Ducks and Great Crested
Grebes.
At the waters edge I saw my first Common
Greenshank for the season.
Isn't it just too easy to make birdwatchers happy ? They
even bought me dinner at Townies !
Regards, Bob Forsyth, Mount Isa, NW Qld.
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