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Date: 9 January, 2006
Observer: Colin Rogers
Location: Magazine Road Wetlands, Dry Creek
Observation:
Long-toed Stint - at least eleven are in the Magazine Road Wetlands. Walk in
along the road and look over the embankment into the two northern ponds. A
Pectoral Sandpiper is also present.
Date: 9 January, 2006
Observer: Colin Rogers
Location: Dry Creek Saltfields, St Kilda
Observation:
Broad-billed Sandpiper roosting with Red-necked Stints and Sharp-tailed
Sandpipers on the saltflats 1 km in from the gate on Monday evening. Look
for the obvious white split supercilium against a black crown. Terek
Sandpiper - three usually in the vicinity of the mangrove channels or small
sandy spit and island near the cormorant roost (dead mangroves).
Date: 14 January, 2006
Observer: Colin Rogers
Location: Buckland Park Lake
Observation:
Hudsonian Godwit flying with thirty or so Black-tailed Godwit over Buckland
Park Lake, early morning. Eighteen Long-toed Stint on the northern edge of
the Lake.
Date: 15 January, 2006
Observer: Colin Rogers
Location: Dry Creek Saltfields, St. Kilda
Observation:
Broad-billed Sandpiper roosting with Red-necked Stint on the flats over the
embankment directly inside the gate to Dry Creek Saltfields. Two Terek
Sandpiper and one Long-toed Stint also present at the morning high tide.
Date: 15 January, 2006
Observer: Colin Rogers
Location: Dry Creek Saltfields, St. Kilda
Observation:
Two Terek Sandpiper near the cormorant roost on the mangrove track at the
morning high tide.
Date: 15 January, 2006
Observer: Colin Rogers
Location: Dry Creek Saltfields, St. Kilda
Observation:
Red-necked Phalarope was back in the mangrove pool opposite the centre track
at 9.30 am. If you want to see this bird you should look over the next few
days of the high-tide cycle. It was not seen in this pool over the low-tide
cycle from 11/01/06 to 14/01/06.
Date: 15 January, 2006
Observer: Peter Waanders
Location: Sedan-Mannum Rd 15 km N of Mannum
Observation:
Black Falcon
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Trevor Cowie
Field Program Co-ordinator
SAOA/Birds SA
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