Good Birding on the NSW Central Coast

["Peter Madvig" <>]

Hi Alan and birders,

 

Members of the CBOC had an outing to Botany Bay (Sydney) yesterday, with Phil Straw.

At Penrhyn Road we did in fact catch up with a group of Red Knots, perhaps a dozen or so.

 

A surprise was at Boat Harbour to see Double-banded Plovers in breeding plumage, as we are now in October!

 

Cheers,

 

Peter Madvig

 

Alan wrote:

All the usual migratory waders have returned except for the Red Knots. They are only passage migrants but we should have seen some by now. However the 100mm of rain that fell on 1/10 across the Region, made the water levels on Tuggerah Lakes rise so that the mud and sand flats usually frequented by the Knots was under water for a while so they may have pushed on further south rather than stay around. An added bonus has been a pair of Sanderlings that have ben present at Soldiers Pt Norah Head from 2/10.

 

Remarkably we still have White-fronted Terns around the coastal rock platforms with one being seen at Copacobana on 2/10 and 10+ at Soldiers Point on 6/10."...........