Hen & Chicken Bay,Sydney. Waders

[David Berg <>]

I was visiting someone in Charlton St, Abbotsford (on hen and Chicken Bay) on saturday and it was low tide. There were at least 20 bar tailed godwits and 5 black winged stilts, as well as some type of sandpiper on the mudflats. Its a nice, quiet spot too for watching them. They totally ignored my daughter's mud activities.Lucky residents! Unlike the idiot whose dog managed to chase every wader near Timbrell park last tuesday morning. perhaps its time to ban dogs from the mudflats.

 

Dave

Andrew Taylor <> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 06:40:19PM +1000, Timothy Hyde wrote:
> > I'm not expecting an ID but I would like to know if there are any
> > birders that have some more info on the waders in H&C Bay & Iron Cove.
>
> I run around Iron Cove regularly. Bar-tailed
>  Godwit are usually present
> - numbers seem higher in winter. I've seen very few other waders and
> haven't managed to ID any (no binoculars). Black-winged Stilt, Masked
> Lapwing, Silver Gulls and Chestnut Teal commonly accompany the Godwits
> Other water birds are there occasionally. There is an excellent report
> on the area's fauna by Dion Hobcroft:
> http://www.canadabay.nsw.gov.au/verve/_resources/Canada_Bay_Council_Fauna_Survey_2002_2003.pdf
>
> Andrew
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