Thanks for the follow-up John,
I was at Coral Beach on 11 and 12 Jan. Saw 2 Sooty Oycs and 2 Wandering
Tattlers, but there was no sign of breeding plumage on the Tattlers then. I
saw no large sand-plovers; perhaps they are migrating through now. Perhaps
the Common Terns have moved off?
At 19:56 3/03/98 PST, you wrote:
>On Sunday March 1 Joh van Tieman, Camilla Wren and myself visited Cape
>Edgecumbe/Coral Beach Bowen, Queensland in search of nesting Black-naped
>Terns. Time 09.40 - 11.40. SE moderate breeze.
>The tide on this particular day was one of the biggest for the season
>and it was pleasing to observe that the area where the BNTerns would
>have possibly nested was still high and dry.
>No breeding sites were observed in the area that proved most suitable
>but that is not to say that they hadn't been utilised earlier. I think
>the report I read was for January 1998.
>Birds observed Wandering Tattlers (breeding plumage) 2
> Sooty Oystercatcher 2
> Large Sand Plovers 34
> Ruddy Turnstone 4
> Pied Cormorant 38
> Silver Gull 11
> Crested Tern 64
> Black-naped Tern 8 (2 juveniles)
> Little Tern 3
>
>Details recorded for the Qld Wader Study Group. Joh was pleased with his
>new bird the Wandering Tattler and we managed to pick up all
>distinguishing features plus two calls when one bird was in flight.
>Jon Wren
>
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