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Hi Birders,
During this last week, I had two visits to the Ash
Island Ponds and once again good birding was the order of the day. On Tuesday
13/11/01 my visit was at low tide in the late afternoon, while on Friday
16/11/01 the visit was at high tide in late morning. The Following birds were
sighted.
Black Swan 4,5
Grey Teal 484,69
Chestnut Teal 348,6
Pelican 1,3
Little Black Cormorant
1,2
Little Pied Cormorant
1,3
White-faced Heron
29,45
Great Egret 2,3
Intermediate Egret
4,10
Little Egret
4,4
Australian White Ibis
11,10
Straw-necked Ibis
3,1
Purple
Swamphen 3,1
Buff-banded rail 1,0
Spotted Crake 1,1
Common Greenshank
18,20
Marsh Sandpiper
21,48
Curlew Sandpiper
37,6
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
124,136
Red-necked Stint
39,20
Marsh Lapwing 22,16
Red-capped Plover
0,4
Red-kneed Dotterel
1,1
Silver Gull 60,1
White-winged Black Tern
0,.2
Whiskered tern 12,0
Together with the usual White-fronted Chats,
Mangrove Gerygones, Reed warblers, Tawny Grassbirds, Pipits & Cisticolas,
plus Bar-shouldered Dove, Swamp Harriers, Brown Falcons, Sea-eagle, Kestrel,
Black-shouldered Ktes and Whistling Kite.
The White-winged Black terns were in non-breeding
plumage while the Whiskered Terns were half and half.
Alan Morris
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