Sometimes I've found sea birds to be quite trusting. Once standing on
a beach at Broome, supervising my young son in the water I saw a
little movement just to my left. I looked down and the wader looked up
at me and then looked out to sea. "Oh," I thought, "an immature
Sanderling". I don't know what the Sanderling was thinking, but it
stood there within a meter of me for about ten minutes.
At the moment in our backyard in suburban Canberra we have a male
Gang-gang hanging about. I think it's only recently moulted into adult
plumage, as you can see bits of immature plumage here and there. It
lets you get within a meter or so. I may just have been left by its
parents and so may be feeling a bit sorry for itself. Or maybe it's
just very naive.
John Leonard
On 24/03/2008, john hammond <> wrote:
> Hi all. Have just spent easter down at fingal beach on the tweed coast. On
> saturday i was surfing and ended up getting swept a fair way down the beach.
> As i was paddling back in i saw a brown tern like bird standing on the beach
> and went to investigate, as it turns out it was a common noddy. I didnt have
> my bins on me at the time so i slowly walked up to the bird and not a word of
> a lie ended up sitting beside it! As i sat down the bird shuffled its feet a
> bit but after a couple of seconds settled down and seamed not at all worried
> a human was sitting about a metre away. Has anyone else had experiences with
> sea birds being so trusting? Also can anyone tell me if this is a rare
> sighting in that neck of the woods. I would not have expected to find a
> common noddy that far south and it was a welcome tick. Regards John.
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