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Blue Petrel Discovery Bay

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Subject: Blue Petrel Discovery Bay
From: "Rob Farnes" <>
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 10:26:05 +1000
Hi all,
Adam Rigg and I walked 16kms of Discovery Bay (6 October) and the highlight was a Blue Petrel.  It flew up the beach towards us with it's looping flight (gliding low 1m off the sand and then rising to c 10m).   Giving excellent views of the white (speckled forehead), white tail tips and half collar.  It flew past us and went up the beach a couple of hundred meters and was seen a short time later flying low over the surf it then banked turned and came back along the beach passing over us again.
I have occasionally seen blue petrels off Cape Nelson, Portland in spring and they are found regularly beach cast (we had picked up four earlier in the day).
BIRD LIST

Little Penguin (1)
Blue Petrel (1) flying along the beach
Aust. Gannet (2) offshore
Ruddy Turnstone (1)
Red-necked Stint (342) 5 flagged
Sanderling 607 at least (18) flagged
Pied Oystercatcher (11)
Hooded Plover ((24)  three recently fledged young
Red-capped Plover (3)
Silver Gull (40)
Pacific Gull  (2)
Kelp Gull  (25)
 
BEACH CAST
 
L. Penguin (36)
Southern Fulmar (2)
Antarctic Prion (1)
Fairy Prion (2)
Prion sps (3)
Blue Petrel (4)
A. Gannet (1)
Rob Farnes

 




 
 
 
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