Marsh Sandpiper
A friend posted a photo online for help with ID. It was a bird I hadn’t seen before, so I went to where she saw it, and now I have!
Category: Plovers and Shorebirds
Plovers, Dotterels, Lapwings, Stints, Sandpipers, Tattlers, Turnstones, Snipe, Dowitchers, Curlews, Greenshanks, Shanks, Pratincoles and Phalaropes, Stilts, Oystercatchers, Avocets, Sandpipers
Sooty Oystercatcher
This is a really awful photo, taken zoomed in using my iphone. But it’s a new bird 🙂
Great Knot, Red Knot
These birds are quite similar, but the Great Knot is a little bigger than the Red Knot, and the red has chevron shaped marks on the chest, while the great has more dash-like marks....
Red-kneed Dotterel
Another new bird from this little bit of wetlands. It was an exciting trip! Three new birds.
Black-fronted Dotterel
Another new one for me. I’d seen people posting photos of a few birds I’d never seen before that they’d taken here, so thought I should check it out!
White-headed Stilt
Gorgeous elegant little wader. There were adult birds there too, but I didn’t get a nice photo of one. I should go through them again and see if I can pick out the best,...
Australian Pied Oystercatcher
I saw a Pied Oystercatcher at Wellington Point a couple of weeks ago, but I only had my phone with me, so the photos were not very good. I was pleased to see it...