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Yesterday (Sunday) morning, David Mitford and I did
a seawatch from Maroubra with the expectation that the recent stormy
weather may cause some of the more tropical species to flow down the east
coast but despite this not happening, we did see a number of interesting
species. The bird of the morning was a Long-tailed Jaeger within
30 metres from shore and like Dion's bird, spending quite some time
loathing on the ocean surface. We also saw plenty of the other Jaegers
(especially Pomarine) going past with several quite close to shore (mainly
Arctic as usual identified with their more "falcon" like flight, less barrell
chest, longer and more slender wings and smaller head).
Beside the Jaegers, there were the expected flow of
Shearwaters with at least 4 species seen and possibly also a Streaked
Shearwater flying away from us in the gloom of the rain belts. There were also
several Australasian Gannets as well, mainly heading
south.
Species and minimum numbers seen were as
follows:
Wedge-tailed Shearwater (500)
Fleshy-footed Shearwater (4)
Short-tailed Shearwater (30)
Streaked Shearwater (1 possible flying away in the
distance)
Fluttering Shearwater (3)
Australasian Gannet (20)
Little Pied Cormorant (1)
Little Black Cormorant (2)
Great Cormorant (1)
Pied Cormorant (1)
Arctic Jaeger (10)
Pomarine Jaeger (35)
Long-tailed Jaeger (1)
Silver Gull (500)
Crested Tern (50)
A good morning
Edwin Vella
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