Had a great day out today covering the area between McLaughlin's Inlet
and Mann's Beach in Gippsland by boat, at mid to low tide. At
McLaughlin's entrance there were 60+ Fairy Terns, many sitting on eggs,
50+ Eastern Curlew, 3 adult Hooded Plover plus 2 chicks, and heaps of
Red-necked Stints with a few Curlew Sandpipers. Down at Mann's there
were many more Curlew Sandpipers, about 75 Bar-tailed Godwit, and 50 odd
Whimbrel. Right through the area there were thousands of Stints, lots of
Pacific Gulls and Pied Oystercatchers, and near St. Margaret's Island
half a dozen Sooty Oystercatchers. Just offshore there were unidentified
Shearwaters as far as the binos could see. Duncan Fraser, Maffra, Vic.
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