And so to Werribee. While staying in Geelong I visited this fascinating site on 4 separate days, finding something of interest on each occasion. At first I had some difficulty finding the migratory waders, they being absent from their usual haunts - except for a few roadside sharpies. Then I came across Danny Rogers conducting a wader survey - and he said he had recently counted a couple of thousand stints. The fact is I was out of phase with the tides, and when I coincided with a low tide there were the little chaps out there, feeding like mad. I still don’t know where they were roosting when the tide was up, though. Moreover, unlike previous visits I found very few curlew sandpipers - less than a dozen altogether. Came across a few B-t Godwits, a couple of greenshanks and a single golden plover. I was going to spare you the wader photo, but, oh well, here’s a whole bunch of stints, with a few sharpies mixed in. I wonder if the little chap that passed through FSP is in there somewhere. Then again, he might be off with the other 1850.
