Birdline Northern Territory
Published sightings for the week ending 28 Oct 2014.
Mon 27 Oct White wagtail Lee Point
Hi all, This morning at around 6:05 AM I saw a white wagtail at Lee
Point. It was a very short encounter, I entered the beach at 5:55 and
was looking at some sandplovers on the rocks near the entrance. I then
walked further on the beach heading to Buffelo Creek for the shorebird
count. on the right of the entrance of the beach you have a line of
casuarina trees and I was about halfway those trees when the white
wagtail flew towards me. It was still pretty dark because sunrise was a
couple of minutes later. The bird flew at a height of about 5-7 metres
in its typical undulating flight (up-down) and called with it's typical
"dzip" every time it was at its lowest point of it's flight. tail was
relatively long and slim. wings were pretty wide and it had a short
head. I'm a Dutch Intern at CDU and see white wagtails (I know
different subspec. but silhouette and sound are still the same) on a
daily basis back home and I see them very often flying over like the
bird did this morning. In short: I'm 100% sure it was a white wagtail.
I don't no how often there are white wagtails in Darwin but if not, I
hope you guys are able to find it again. Cheers
Coen van Tuijl
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