Graeme Tribe has reported seeing a Ringed Plover at Lake Connewarre today.
Lake Connewarre is between Geelong and Barwon Heads, southwest of
Melbourne, Victoria.
The location is where the Barwon River flows out of Lake Connewarre. There
are wader roosts near what used to be an island where Orange bellied
Parrots are found in autumn. (Many people know this place because of OBP
counts.) I have not been there for some time and I gather the island itself
is now joined to the mainland (the right bank of the river) but where the
channel used to be is very muddy and may be impracticable to cross, and it
is still advisable to go by boat up the river from Barwon Heads or Ocean
Grove. You should do this at high tide.
Graeme had not seen a Ringed Plover before and neither had the other
observers, Ivor and Ruth Grainey, and Dick and Shirley Southcombe. He has
seen the Little Ringed Plover in Bulgaria.
He identified it as a nonbreeding adult from Slater, and Simpson and Day,
and found the book Birdlife of Britain by Peter Hayman and Philip Burton
very helpful. He is a good observer.
Graeme is not on email but his phone number is 03 5255 2302.
Margaret Cameron 03 5229 9792
4 Connor Street
East Geelong
Victoria 3219
Australia
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