During November we were living in Yuendumu Community up the Tanami Road. I
checked the sewage ponds daily and on about the 10th a small wader turned up. I
thought it was a Long-toed Stint but sent photographs of it away for
confirmation. It was indeed a Long-toed Stint and was still there on the 18th
when we left. We are now living at Nyirripi Community (about an hour west of
Newhaven Sanctuary) and yesterday 3 Oriental Plovers turned up at our small
sewage ponds and are still there today. Also around are Orange Chat, 2
Peregrines watching the birds drinking at the ponds, 2 Black-tailed Native-hens
stayed 2 days but now gone 1 Whiskered Tern in full breeding plumage and the
usual arid land honeyeaters Black, Pied, Grey-headed and Spiny-cheeked. On the
ponds themselves are 11 Grey Teal 5 Pink-eared Ducks 1 Australasian and 2
Hoary-headed Grebes and round the edges Red-kneed and Black-fronted Dotterels
Don Hadden
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P O Box 1007, Malanda, Qld 4885, Australia
Mobile: +61 439958220
Web: www.donhadden.com for Australian bird images
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