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G'day
Kurtis,
That
was Ken Gilmour, a fellow member of the Botany Bay wader study group. On his
regular wader/waterbird count for the Metromix swamp which he does every Wed and
Sat, at 8.30-9.00am Sat Nov 29, he noticed the beach stone curlew on the
RHS (facing from Capt Cook Dve) mudflat which is about two-thirds of the way to
the sluice-gates at the back.
He
tells me he walked around for a closer look, and incidentally he saw both
Lewins and buff-banded rails actually out in the open on the bend of the track
at the RHS casuarina stand.
Ken
got good long views of the beach stone curlew at quite close quarters for
15-20mins.
Ken is
an experienced birder, late 40's, but unfortunately doesn't do any of this
www/email stuff.
By the
way, in talking with Geoff Ross of the NPWS, it's approx 12 months since he
found a beach stone curlew at Towra Reserve.
Since
Ken reported his sighting on birdline, I have dropped-in on the Metromix swamp
(more recently designated the Kurnell shorebird lagoon or H1) on both high and
low tides for most days since, and there's no futher sign of the BS
curlew.
The
regular species sighted since which may be of interest are:-
2
Terek sandpipers (look to the back of the islands on high
tide)
2-3
red knots
2-5
little terns (pairs in nuptial rituals), 1 non-br
3 B/T
godwits
5 Pied
Oystercatchers (3 juv's, hatched around Oct 21)
8-9
Common greenshanks
5
Sharpies
1 Kelp
Gull (juv)
20-26
E Curlew
3-18
Royal Spoonbill
1 Juv
Swamp Harrier with very distinctive large white/creamy patch of feathers on
nape, as well as broad creamy/white band across rump.
Emu
wrens
Nesting Black-winged stilt
Regards
Bruce
Roubin
Hi all,
What is this I hear about a Beach Stone Curlew at
metromix Swamp,who was the one who saw it/
Cheers,
Kurtis Lindsay
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