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Old Bar, Taree, NSW

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Subject: Old Bar, Taree, NSW
From: Penny Brockman <>
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2007 22:40:55 +1000
Dear all

Yesterday 31st March paid a visit to Old Bar, a beachside lagoon on the coast just south of the Manning River estuary, east of Taree. The tide was on the turn, just starting to go out when we arrived at 10am, with a s to sw fairly strong wind. Walked along the beach between sea and Little Tern fence. At least half way along, found a small group of Little Sand Plovers in the 4WD tracks and, great excitement, ONE Sanderling. Further on, found another small group of LSPs, and another Sanderling! At the end of the tern fence, a group of 40 Golden Plovers roosting on the sand, many starting to gain breeding plumage, plus Sanderlings and Red necked Stints. Walked down to the retreating waters of the lagoon, along with many Stints and Sanderlings flying in to feed on the newly exposed sandy mud - well over 200 Stints and I'm afraid we gave up trying to count the Sanderlings as they moved around so much but must have been 20 or more.

Also present, 8* Pied Oystercatchers (one with a yellow leg flag), Silver Gulls, Crested, Common and Little Terns, lots of Red-capped Plovers plus a few immatures, more LSPs, 1 Caspian Tern, 1 Whimbrel, 3 E.Curlews, Pelicans, a Little Pied Cormorant, 75 Black Swan, a White-breasted Sea-eagle, Masked Lapwings and 25* Bar-tailed Godwit. Another 25 or so Golden Plovers out on a sand bar with the godwits and terns, and White-cheeked Honeyeaters and Little Wattlebirds making a racket in the trees at the back of the lagoon. Walking back behind the tern fence and disturbed more Stints and LSPs. A surprisingly large number of species and numbers of some species, certainly more than I've seen there before but I guess many were the migrators on their way back north.

We then went on to Wallabi Point, south of Old Bar. Much quieter here with an Osprey and another Sea-Eagle, Whistling Kite, Regent & Satin Bowerbirds in the fig trees.

Driving around the Manning Point area later that afternoon, we surprised a female Peregrine on a fence post clutching an Eastern Rosella, just killed.

Good sightings at Gloucester Friday 30th, a Black-necked Stork (Jabaru) just north of the Golf Club - no sight again despite two searches, and today 1 April at least 2 Jacana on a farm dam at Craven, about 28k south of Gloucester. Also there Black-winged Stilts with juveniles, and Musk Lorikeets enjoying blossom in a Red Gum - a few trees just coming into flower.


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