01-22-2017, 11:56 AM
Went for a long 5km beach walk with a couple of friends looking for fairy terns.
Alas, no fairy terns. But we did get to see another pair of Hooded plovers, a pair of red capped plovers, a lot of crested terns, a whimbrel, a few red necked stints, and many bar-tailed godwits on their summer vacation here.
Was lucky we saw them, we had just started to leave and I turned back around as the sand was blowing in my eyes and a big flock of the godwits arrived to rest on a sand bar. So of course we went back to see them. Even the rain couldn't stop us!
Alas, no fairy terns. But we did get to see another pair of Hooded plovers, a pair of red capped plovers, a lot of crested terns, a whimbrel, a few red necked stints, and many bar-tailed godwits on their summer vacation here.
Was lucky we saw them, we had just started to leave and I turned back around as the sand was blowing in my eyes and a big flock of the godwits arrived to rest on a sand bar. So of course we went back to see them. Even the rain couldn't stop us!