Thanks for posting Paul. I'm up at Mooloolah Valley for the weekend visiting
from Sydney for Gran duties. Great to see 3 Wandering Tattlers in breeding
plumage with definite barred undertail coverts and 2 Sooty Oystercatchers
despite all the people wandering around and me with 2 littlies in tow. A new
bird is always fun.
Cheers
Chris
Christine Melrose
0407705140
On 07/04/2013, at 6:44, "Paul Walbridge" <>
wrote:
> Hi All, Brian Russell and myself visited the Sunshine Coast headlands
> yesterday after a quiet morning in the higher hinterland looking for fungi
> without too much success. Around about midday at the Maroochydore mouth at
> lowish tide, not much accept for a couple of hundred mixed
> Common/White-winged Black Terns loafing on a distant sand bar. Moved on then
> to Alexandra Headland, which was far more productive. In a 100+ metre stretch
> below the steps we counted 2 Sooty Oystercatchers, 2 dark phase and 1 white
> Eastern Reef Egrets and 6 Wandering Tattlers, all the Tattlers starting to
> colour up. There was a fair bit of exposed headland that we didn't cover, so
> there could have been more.
>
> On then to Point Cartwright which was swarming with people so we just had a
> quick scan of the southern side which turned up nothing of interest.
> Interesting though were a pair of very vocal Whistling Kites which were
> gathering nesting material and landing in the pine trees. The resident pair
> of Ospreys appeared to ignore them and just went about their business. I've
> seen Osprey and Whistling Kites nesting close together in the past. Last
> stop, Caloundra Headland which we covered from north to south and turned up
> nil Wandering Tattlers. Off the south eastern tip however there were hundreds
> of actively feeding terns, mostly Common Terns interspersed with White-winged
> Black Terns and a few Wedge-tailed Shearwaters, Silver Gulls and Crested
> Terns.
>
> On the rocks were a group of six Sooty Oystercatchers, the biggest group I've
> seen here, all with thin orbital rings and all adults. Also a very
> accommodating white phase Eastern Reef Egret. Then headed for home. Cheers -
> Paul W.
>
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