Hi Jill and All
Just saw email about breeding Silver Gulls. This species breeds throughout
late winter - spring on KI. Thousands of nests of tape weed (dry sea grass)
in samphire bushes in marine estuaries etc. Other seabird breeding is as
follows: Black-faced and Pied Cormorants breed first for the year in late
autumn - through winter, then the silver gulls, then Little Pied Cormorant,
ibis, Pacific Gulls, oystercatchers and spoonbills in spring -summer,
followed by crested, Caspian and fairy terns in summer. Aust Pelican seems
to breed throughout the year at Kingscote-probably due to artificial feeding
at wharf at 5 pm every day (tourist attraction!).
Cheers
Chris Baxter
-----Original Message-----
From:
On Behalf Of Jill Dening
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 7:05 AM
To: Roger Giller; birding-aus
Subject: Where have all the Silver Gulls gone?
Roger, I see that no one has replied to your query online. I would
expect Silver Gulls to be breeding at this time of year. I have seen
breeding colonies at this time of year, though can't say if this is the
case all around the country. Additionally, all the inland rain has no
doubt set up suitable inland breeding conditions for Silver Gulls.
Perhaps people might offer information about Silver Gull presence right
now in their familiar places. Is anyone aware of breeding now?
Cheers,
Jill
Jill Dening
Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia
26° 51' 41"S 152° 56' 00"E
On 20/09/2010 11:29 PM, Roger Giller wrote:
> Last week I was with family and friends at Sussex Inlet for 6 days,
fishing and sightseeing with a bit of birding when practicable. One thing
that I noted was an almost complete absence of Silver Gulls. In the whole
time we saw no more than about 5 or 6.
>
> We were on the water for a total of about 25 hours over the period, both
on St Georges Basin and in the inlet/river itself. Each time we cleaned fish
at the private jetty attached to the house we stayed in there were between 1
and 5 Pelicans who arrived before we had the boat tied up, but not a single
Silver Gull. The house backs on to one of the "canals" and has great views
over the water. When not out fishing or sightseeing we just sat and admired
the view. Lots of birds to see, but no Silver Gulls.
>
> Far more numerous than the Silver Gulls were Masked Lapwings on almost any
open grassed area, and approximately a hundred Cormorants, mainly Little
black and Little Pied.
>
> Highlight of the week was my first Eastern Bristlebird, at Cave Beach in
Booderee National Park. We stood on the boardwalk to the lookout and it just
walked out of the scrub directly below us. I put a photo on ABID.
>
> Roger Giller.
>
> ============================
> To unsubscribe from this mailing list,
> send the message:
> unsubscribe
> (in the body of the message, with no Subject line)
> to:
>
> http://birding-aus.org
> ============================
===============================
To unsubscribe from this mailing list,
send the message:
unsubscribe
(in the body of the message, with no Subject line)
to:
http://birding-aus.org
===============================
==============================
To unsubscribe from this mailing list,
send the message:
unsubscribe
(in the body of the message, with no Subject line)
to:
http://birding-aus.org
=============================
|
