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Penrhyn Road, Port Botany

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Subject: Penrhyn Road, Port Botany
From: "Tom Wilson" <>
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 22:07:42 +1000
Did a quick visit to Penrhyn Road, Port Botany yesterday morning (17 October approx 8:45-10am) after dropping my parents at the Airport.
A good selection of waders feeding busily on the falling tide between 8:45
and 10 am, viz (my counts in brackets):

Red Necked Stints (40+)
Bar Tailed Godwits (50+)
Black Tailed Godwit (3)
Sharp Tailed Sandpiper (15)
Curlew Sandpiper (30)
Red Knot (20)
Golden Plover (2)
Red Capped Dotterel (2)
Black Winged Stilts (10)
Whiskered Terns (30)
Little Terns (4)
Common Terns (2)
 
There was one very "washed out" looking plover in moult from breeding plumage feeding
near, but not with the 2 Goldens (which had lost all traces of black chest and belly).  I didn't get a good view at close range, but it did not show any of the warmer/buff tones that Golden Plovers show when in non-breeding
colours and it didn't lift its wings to show me its armpits, so I think (but am not sure) that it was a Grey Plover.  Has anyone else visited the site seen this bird?

Cheers
Tom Wilson

PS -  Parents en route to Alice Springs (35C+ but 3 Freckled Ducks at STW
this afternoon).

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