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Beach Stone curlew at Metromix Swamp?

To: "'K,K&E Lindsay'" <>, "'Birding Aus'" <>
Subject: Beach Stone curlew at Metromix Swamp?
From: "Bruce Roubin" <>
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 21:53:12 +1100
G'day Kurtis,
 
That was Ken Gilmour, a fellow member of the Botany Bay wader study group. On his regular wader/waterbird count for the Metromix swamp which he does every Wed and Sat, at 8.30-9.00am Sat Nov 29, he noticed the beach stone curlew on the RHS (facing from Capt Cook Dve) mudflat which is about two-thirds of the way to the sluice-gates at the back. 
He tells me he walked around for a closer look, and incidentally he saw both Lewins and buff-banded rails actually out in the open on the bend of the track at the RHS casuarina stand.
Ken got good long views of the beach stone curlew at quite close quarters for 15-20mins.
Ken is an experienced birder, late 40's, but unfortunately doesn't do any of this www/email stuff.
By the way, in talking with Geoff Ross of the NPWS, it's approx 12 months since he found a beach stone curlew at Towra Reserve.
Since Ken reported his sighting on birdline, I have dropped-in on the Metromix swamp (more recently designated the Kurnell shorebird lagoon or H1) on both high and low tides for most days since, and there's no futher sign of the BS curlew.
 
The regular species sighted since which may be of interest are:-
 
2 Terek sandpipers (look to the back of the islands on high tide)
2-3 red knots
2-5 little terns (pairs in nuptial rituals), 1 non-br
3 B/T godwits
5 Pied Oystercatchers (3 juv's, hatched around Oct 21)
8-9 Common greenshanks
5 Sharpies
1 Kelp Gull (juv)
20-26 E Curlew
3-18 Royal Spoonbill
1 Juv Swamp Harrier with very distinctive large white/creamy patch of feathers on nape, as well as broad creamy/white band across rump.
Emu wrens
Nesting Black-winged stilt 
 
Regards
Bruce Roubin
 
 
 
 
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From: [ On Behalf Of K,K&E Lindsay
Sent: Tuesday, 9 December 2003 8:29
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Subject: [BIRDING-AUS] Beach Stone curlew at Metromix Swamp?

Hi all,
What is this I hear about a Beach Stone Curlew at metromix Swamp,who was the one who saw it/
Cheers,
Kurtis Lindsay
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