ILLAWARRA REGION (60 ? 180 km south of Sydney CBD)
SHOALHAVEN HEADS/COMERONG ISLAND, 24/1/03
Wedge-tailed Shearwater 20K plus
Australasian Gannet (20-30
Arctic Jaegar (1 dark morph)
There was a feeding frenzy of Shearwaters and Gannets just behind the
surf line beside Comerong
Island. Unfortunately ran out of time
to watch more of the action.
Pacific Golden Plovers (45 plus)
Bar-tailed Godwits (228 plus)
Eastern Curlew (10)
Red-necked Stints (40 plus)
Pied Oystercatcher (1)
White-fronted Chat (1)
White-bellied Sea-eagle (1 Imm.)
As the tide was well out, I more than likely only saw a small percentage
of the birds that use this estuary
CULBURRA 24/1/03
Square-tailed
Kite (amazing views of one nicely plumaged adult bird for as
long as I wanted, well atleast 20 or so minutes (it?s been a few years since I
last saw one and only my sixth/seventh sighting). This Kite flew very low over
the suburban backyards and at one time crashed in a small leafy tree like a
Baza. There is atleast one resident pair of Square-tailed Kites in the Nowra
area, and I may have seen one very distant on my last visit early this
year.
LAKE
WOLLUMBOOLA 2/1/03
Lots of waders and thousands of waterfowl including:
Black Swans (10-15K)
Coots (4K)
Grey Teals (2K)
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (200 plus)
Curlew Sandpipers (3)
Red-necked Stints (50-60)
Ruddy Turnstones (2)
Marsh Sandpiper (1)
Pacific Golden Plovers (8)
Red-capped Plovers (30 plus)
Gull-billed Terns (2)
Little Terns (65 plus, an underestimate and only counted the birds
resting on the mudflats)
Swamp Harrier (1)
White-fronted Chats (15)
CROOKHAVEN HEADS
Sooty Oystercatchers (6)
BARREN GROUNDS NR
Eastern Bristlebirds (2 among
several heard)
Grey Goshawk (a male stirring up 18 Yellow-tailed
Black-cockatoos)
Gang-gang cockatoos (many seen)
Boobook Owl (one flushed in undergrowth beside track during the
day)
Pilotbirds (very good views of 2 birds)
Beautiful Firetail (1 feeding on Casuarina seeds)
Logrunners (a pair amongst a few others heard)
Southern Emu-wrens (4 amongst many others heard)
Black-faced Monarchs
Rufous Fantails
One Greater Glider (dark morph) was seen at night as well as a few Common
Ringtail Possums, glow worms and Red-clawed Yabbies
A good week of birding
Edwin Vella
