Gull-billed Terns

There are actually images from two trips here, but one of the trips both are in flight, so I thought I’d put them all in the same post. The group at Thorneside shows one...

Striated Heron

This guy was so cute, stalking fish in the rockpools, and catching them and eating them as quick as a blink!

Greater Crested Tern

A new Tern for me. There is a Lesser Crested Tern, and this is usually listed as Crested Tern, but the most knowledgeable bird person I’ve come across calls this Greater, logically, since the...

Little Egret

I thought I had a new bird here. Turned out that I did, and I didn’t. I didn’t have Little Egret on my list, but a bird I’d previously identified as an Intermediate Egret...

Caspian Tern

At Wellington Point with my daughter and granddaughter again, and got some better photos than I had previously of a gorgeous Caspian Tern.

Grey-tailed Tattler

We often go to Wellington Point for the kids (and us) to catch pokemon. When it’s low tide I take my camera. I’ve only done this twice, but both times I’ve gotten a new...

Bar-tailed Godwit

A new one for me today! Another quite common bird around here which is “near threatened”, according to the IUCN Red List The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (also known as the IUCN...