I would just like to thank everyone that responded to my query re suspected migration. There was general consensus that it was the well known Short-tailed Shearwater migration that regularly occurs at this time of year with the possibility of a few Sooty and Wedge-tailed shearwaters amongst them.
I later found out from friends that stayed onto Tuesday at the Bittangabee Campground that if I had managed to walk south to Green Cape lighthouse (rather than north to Boyd Tower) I would have been rewarded by all sorts of information about the migration.
Annette
--- On Tue, 6/10/09, annette carse <> wrote:
From: annette carse <>
Subject: [canberrabirds] suspected migration
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Received: Tuesday, 6 October, 2009, 8:04 PM
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Can anyone help please
Over the October long weekend I was camping with a few friends at Bittangabee Campground in Ben Boyd National Park to catch a glimpse of a few whales. Whilst looking for whales I saw a long stream of dark coloured birds a few feet above the ocean surface heading south, approximately 500 metres offshore. I was unable to make out any detail as they were too far away to resolve with my binoculars but it continued all day Sunday and they were still going on Monday prior to our leaving.
It looked like a migration - for me an extraordinary event. Can anyone help me out with what they were?
Annette Carse
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