Hi
First I would like to thank everyone that responded to my request concerning
good sites for waders around Melbourne. I got the impression that Werribee
Treatment Plant was hot spot no. 1, so I went there last Friday. It was a
_lot_ bigger than I thought, and going there on a bicycle was to be a pain
in the but - literally speaking! Anyway, it was a fantastic place, with many
new speices for me. But I didn't encounter all the waders I was hoping for,
perhaps it's a little late in the season or I may have missed som good
spots? I concentated my effort around Lake Borrie, and I found most of the
waders at the mouth of Little River. Very few was found inland apart from
some around a lagoon just north og LB. Here is a list of some of the birds I
saw:
Great Crested Grebe 4
Hoary-headed Grebe 300 +
Great Cormorant 1
Australian Darter 2
Cattle Egret 9
White-faced Heron 20
Royal Spoonbill 1
Australian Ibis
Black Swan
Australian Shelduck
Australian Shoveler
Chestnut Teal
Grey Teal
Pacific Black Duck
Blue-billed Duck 10
Musk Duck 50+
Pink-eared Duck 8
Black-shouldered Kite or Australian Kite 1
Swamp Harrier 10
Whistling Kite 15
Peregrine Falcon 2
Brown Falcon 5
Common Coot or Eurasian Coot
Purple Swamphen
Pied Oystercatcher 1
White-headed Stilt 200 +
Red-capped Plover 6
Masked Lapwing 50 +
Curlew Sandpiper 300 +
Red-necked Stint 1000 +
Common Greenshank 25
Great Crested-Tern or Crested Tern 8
White-winged Black Tern ca. 250
Skylark 6
Fairy Martin 1
Welcome Swallow
Golden-headed Cisticola
Australian Reed-Warbler 2
White-fronted Chat 30
Western Gerygone 1
Superb Fairywren
Regards
Oyvind Hagen
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