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Did a quick
visit to Penrhyn Road, Port Botany yesterday morning (17 October approx
8:45-10am) after dropping my parents at the Airport.
A good selection of
waders feeding busily on the falling tide between 8:45
and 10 am, viz (my
counts in brackets):
Red Necked Stints (40+)
Bar Tailed Godwits
(50+)
Black Tailed Godwit (3)
Sharp Tailed Sandpiper (15)
Curlew
Sandpiper (30)
Red Knot (20)
Golden Plover (2)
Red Capped Dotterel
(2)
Black Winged Stilts (10)
Whiskered Terns (30)
Little Terns
(4)
Common Terns
(2)
There was one
very "washed out" looking plover in moult from breeding plumage feeding
near,
but not with the 2 Goldens (which had lost all traces of black chest and
belly). I didn't get a good view at close range, but it did not show any
of the warmer/buff tones that Golden Plovers show when in
non-breeding
colours and it didn't lift its wings to show me its armpits, so
I think (but am not sure) that it was a Grey Plover. Has anyone else
visited the site seen this bird?
Cheers
Tom Wilson
PS -
Parents en route to Alice Springs (35C+ but 3 Freckled Ducks at STW
this
afternoon).
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