Overwintering Common Greenshank at the Kurnell Shorebird lagoon

["Bruce Roubin" <>]

G'day,

Overwintering Common Greenshank be some interest in this with Sydney metro birders.

The following were roosting on Botany Bay high tide this afternoon  (mid) at the former Metromix site  - aka Woolooware swamp, Kurnell Shorebird lagoon or H1:

 

2 Common Greenshank

2 Pied Oystercatcher

74 Chestnut teal (incl. 16 AM's)

2 Grey teal

1 Black-winged stilt

3 Black Swan

 

Also, these ones were active feeding:

1 Musk Duck (AF)

3 Little Black Cormorant

1 Little Pied Cormorant

2 White-faced heron

2 W. Ibis

1 Pelican

 

and a white-bellied sea eagle did a fly-by.

 

Regards

Bruce Roubin