Oystercatchers on grass

Hi All, 

A few years back i saw a Peid Oystercatcher feeding on earthworms. It was 
probing deep into the ground with its bill, and it attracted a few 
scavenging silvergulls to its activities. 

This was down at St Leonards on the Bellerine Peninsula, Victoria, and was 
after flash flooding. It was on a coastal strip of land, but the water had 
obviosuly softened the ground enough for the oystercatcher to find it good 
feeding grounds. 

Perhaps this is not noted on mainland Australia much because of the 
usually unsoaked and hardened ground.

Peter



===============================
www.birding-aus.org
birding-aus.blogspot.com

To unsubscribe from this mailing list, 
send the message:
unsubscribe 
(in the body of the message, with no Subject line)
to: 
===============================