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Hi Birders,
On Thursday I was encouraging people to check for
seabirds beachcast and or blown inland due to the strong easterly winds
currently buffeting NSW. Well I can report that Sydney and Central Coast have
received their share of such birds. On Friday, single junvenile Sooty Terns were
blown ashore at Norah Head, Soldiers Point and Bateau Bay; on Friday evening
just where the water flows out from Tuggerah Lakes into the sea at The Entrance
there was 5 adult Sooty Terns and 4 dark juveniles feeding over the sea with
Common Terns, Little Terns, Crested Terns and Wedge-tailed
Shearwaters.
On Saturday 3 February, at Towra Point, within
Botany Bay, Keith Egan reports an adult and a juvenile Sooty Tern flying past
the Little Tern colony, while an adult and a juvenile Sooty Tern were taken into
care because they were trying to catch a train near the Hawkesbury River Railway
Station, which is some kilometres up stream of Broken Bay, and another was
beachcast at Forresters Beach. Finally on Sunday Afternoon at Birdie Beach
North, Munmorah SRA, there was a freshly dead adult Red-tailed Tropic-bird
beachcast.
I would still be interested in hearing of any more
seabird strays!
Alan Morris
Records Officer, NSWFOC
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