A Day on Kangaroo Island

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Hi Everybody

We have had recent sightings of Great Skuas around the coast here, two
sitting hopefully by our boat when we were catching King George Whiting
in Eastern Cove last Saturday and one soaring off the breakwater at
Penneshaw the day before. Two weeks previously we had a Black-browed
Albatross sitting by the boat in the same area.
  
Wednesday was a perfect winter's day here, so we walked from American
River where I live to Redbanks along the coast of KI. The highlight of
the day was not the Glossy-black Cockatoos as they are sometimes feeding
by our house, it was the sighting of an overwintering Whimbrel.
Magnificent rugged coastline in parts with thick vegetation to the edge
of the rock face with other sections of the walk cleared farmland.
Bottle-nosed Dolphins at times close in to the shore where we were
walking. 

The list for the day is detailed below.
Whimbrel
Silver Gull
Pacific Gull
Crested Tern
Common Bronzewing
Glossy-black Cockatoo
Galah
Horsefield's Bronze-cuckoo
Welcome Swallow
Richard's Pipit
Scarlet Robin
Grey Shrike-thrush
Grey Fantail
Willie Wagtail
Superb Fairy-wren
Brown Thornbill
Red Wattlebird
White-fronted Chat 
Silvereye
Red-browed Firetail
Magpie-lark
Magpie
Grey Currawong 
Little Raven 
Litttle Penguin
Australian Pelican
Black-faced Shag
Pied Cormorant
Littlr Pied Cormorant
White-faced Heron
Australian White Ibis
Black Swan
Chestnut Teal
Osprey
White-bellied Sea-eagle
Wedge-tailed Eagle
Australian Kestrel
Pied Oystercatcher
Sooty Oystercatcher
Masked Lapwing

Cheers
Ken Grinter

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