Bird News from Tim Edelsten
Most noteworthy among the usual suspects massed on the southern mudflat were 139 Saunders’s Gull, yawning and showing off their brilliant red gapes.
Also six Black-faced Spoonbill present- sadly their roost site has been completely bulldozed for a new development project.
Feeding frantically in the mud were up to 5000 Dunlin, a pretty sight as their flocks switched to and fro in the afternoon sunlight.
Saunders’s Gull Chroicocephalus saundersi, © Tim Edelsten
Saunders’s Gull Chroicocephalus saundersi, © Tim Edelsten