Colin and everyone,
Last month I visited Windang (south of Wollongong) to
see Kelp Gull and saw around 8 Bar-tailed Godwits
feeding in the park. On one side they had people
walking their dogs and on the other a road. It was
quite an unusal site. This was after recent heavy
rains.
Cheers,
Grant Brosie
Raworth
--- Colin R <> wrote:
> Hi
> I think your explanation, Peter, is the correct one
> - the ground being
> too hard in general because I, like a previous
> correspondent, used to
> see PO feeding in playing fields and paddocks in
> Ireland regularly.
> On the same subject but different bird, a couple of
> weeks ago I noticed
> 3 Bar-tailed Godwits feeding in the grass along the
> Esplanade in Cairns.
> They were quite actively feeding a few feet away
> from parked cars and
> the morning walkers/joggers etc.in the grass strip.
> I don't remember
> seeing Godwits do this before.
>
> Cheers
> Colin
>
>
> On Tue, 29 May 2007 10:56:16 +1000,
> said:
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
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