A pleasant day, though obviously all the Pink-eared Ducks have moved
off inland after the rains.
We dipped on the Little Curlews and saw only Sharpies, Rednecked
Stints and some Curlew Sandpipers and one Greenshank: Avocets and Pied
Stilts too and a large flock of Pied Oystercatchers at Kirk Point. Our
fault for going when the tides didn't help.
A tick for us - Singing Bushlarks in the T-Section - sitting on
fenceposts along the road. Adults speckled, younger birds with a rather
orange cast to plumage.
One Blue-winged Parrot flushed beside Lake Borrie.
At the Little River mouth opposite the Hide - a very small grey bird
skulking in the bushes on the riverbank - it had a triangular orange-red
bill. I feel sure it was a female Zebra Finch.
Two Darters (Male and female) seen separately along the coast.
Lots of assorted raptors - Wedgetails, Whistling Kite, Black Kite, Swamp
Harriers, one brown Goshawk, Brown Falcons, and a Nankeen Kestrel.
Little Grassbirds audible everywhere but determinedly invisible, unlike
the Cisticolas and White-fronted Chats.
Anthea Fleming
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