When the water level is right, there can be good numbers of waders. I've
only birded the area a few times and only once when the water level was low
enough and the time of year was right for waders, but on that occasion there
were 4 Pacific Golden
Plovers (quite rare in the SW), ~100 Sharpies, some Curlew Sandpipers, 50+
Banded Stilt, a couple of Common Sandpipers and Greenshank plus loads of RN
Stints at one site. A Common Redshank and a Painted Snipe have also been
reported in the past. However, the area where the bird hide has been built
near Wonnerup house does not seem to attract many migratory waders, although
it is good for other waterbirds
A Birds WA campout in the Busselton area last year also recorded 15 species
of wader at the nearby Broadwater, including about 30 of both Wood Sandpiper
and Long-toed Stint plus Grey-tailed Tattler, Marsh and Pectoral Sandpipers,
a Masked Lapwing along with good numbers of the common species (Greenshank,
Sharpies etc.)
Cheers
John Graff
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