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RE:Osprey at N.Durras.

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Subject: RE:Osprey at N.Durras.
From: "terry gourlay" <>
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 04:05:32 +0000
Hello All,
Yes on Friday 18th only,an almost mature Osprey at the Ocean end of the Lake,being mobbed by Plovers and then by Gulls.....interesting behaviour was his?enjoying a paddle in water about 100 mms deep,he did this twice.....On the Saturday as I was leaving the Depot Beach Rainforest walk after another fruitless search for Marnix' Large Billed Scrub Wrens,a large raptor flew over the tree tops,as I frantically searched for the Necklace of an Osprey I realised I was looking at a Giant Petrel strange sighting....there was an endless cavalcade of Albatrosses and Boobies out on the Ocean,some coming very close in I identified a Wanderer and several Yellow nosed but there were more species as well as Petrels of unknown types....Several Double Banded Dotterals on the margin of the Lake,and a Spur Wing Plover with three eggs at the boat ramp.....On Point Upright itself a search for nesting activity by the Peregrine Falcon that has previously used the cliffs for nesting was rewarded by quite a racket as three Falcons engaged in noisy confict two males fighting over a female ? this was at the exact site of the previous eyrie,so fingers crossed....Good Hunting,Terry.



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