Spotted Nightjar on the coast

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Subject:	Spotted Nightjar on the coast
From:	"Bruce Roubin" <>
Date:	Sat, 23 Jun 2001 18:44:10 +1000

Good eye,

I just watched a nightjar just after sunset tonight (fronm 5 to 5.30pm), in its erratic and batlike feeding flight over a stand of casuarinas.

It had rounded wings and very prominent white wing patches - which I could see everytime I looked through my binoculars,

no spotlights. Has to be a Spotted Nightjar, hasn't it?

- the only problem is that I was on the coast, at H1 wetlands at Cronulla Sydney!

Could it be a vagrant winter migrant?

Anyone else seen one east of the Divide?

Regards

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