hi all
i've just returned from two weeks on nth stradbroke island off brisbane, where
sightings included:
10-15 common noddies on shag rock about 700m off home beach (viewed by kayak),
a first for me on the island.
6 little terns among a flock of cresteds, 9 ruddy turnstones (one coming into
breeding plumage) and a red-capped dotterel by the creek-fed lagoon at home
beach with a whistling kite in regular attendance.
channel-billed cuckoos and pheasant coucals on the hill behind home beach where
we stayed. also there bush stone curlews and another pair with chicks at the
amity pt caravan pk where dogs are banned.
a white-breasted sea eagle over cylinder beach and another at amity point.
last october there were hundreds of waders on the tidal flats running SW of the
amity sandbar but i was ill-equipped to see them.
this time i was prepared but there weren't as many (eastern curlews, whimbrels,
bar-tailed godwits, pied oystercatchers) and the tide was against me tho a
bar-tailed godwit coming into breeding plumage was a highlight.
there was a bit of action in the mangroves with azure and mangrove KFs,
mangrove HEs, striated heron, reef herons, peaceful doves and surprisingly a
lone white-breasted woodswallow in a dead mangrove right at the water's edge.
someone better equipped and more experienced might like to check out that spot
next season. the shallow flats are walkable/paddleable but beware they are
thick with stingrays.
shane b
ascot q
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