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Western Treatment Plant Saturday 26 July

To: "Russell Woodford" <>
Subject: Western Treatment Plant Saturday 26 July
From: "Chris Sanderson" <>
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 22:07:38 +1000
For those with access it could be worth checking Cheetham too.

Regards,
Chris

On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Russell Woodford
<>wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I popped out to the WTP yesterday morning to look for the Little Stint.
>  There were fewer birders than last week - and sadly, fewer Little Stints!
>
> Nobody I spoke to saw it yesterday, and to my knowledge it hasn't been seen
> since Tues 22nd, and possibly since last Sunday (20th).
>
> I did see a stint with an obvious reddish head - but only from a distance
> of almost 100m. A group of very experienced Geelong Field Nats birders
> called it as breeding plumaged Red-necked Stint, and their Canadian friend
> (who knows breeding Little Stint very well) agreed with this ID. It was a
> bit of a heart-starter, seeing a stint with reddish colouring over most of
> the face and head - but the extent of the colouring, and the greyer centres
> to feathers on the back both indicated RNS according to my hide companions
> who had much better optics (and experience) than me!  Also, and I had to
> concur on this as well, this bird looked as big as the biggest of the RNS's
> on the same patch of sand, and it's movements were exactly the same as the
> birds around it.
>
> Any theories on the Little Stint?  Moved on to another part of the WTP?
> Left the district completely (to where)? Eaten by one of the many birds of
> prey we saw yesterday?
> Our northern Victorian friends might like to have a look around Lake Murphy
> over the next few weeks - there was a suggestion in the past that some birds
> leaving Werribee go there as their first point of call. Any comments?
>
>
>
>
>
> Russell Woodford
> Birding-Aus List Owner
> 
> Geelong   Victoria   Australia
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