Shore Plovers at Plimmerton

[robsphotography]

Not sure if more have been seen since the last post but I popped out to have a look today and only found 1 plover around midday. It was a different one than last time white/yellow (left) and green/blue (right).

That's interesting, we visited today and saw two shore plovers: white/yellow (left) and green/blue (right) -- see picture below --and the other one was white/yellow (left) and white/red (right).

I wonder what has happened to the other 30 or so birds that used to be at Plimmerton?

Cheers
Rob
http://www.robsphotography.co.nz/Shore-Plover.html
Pictures and video links for the Plimmerton shore plovers

[Suzi]

Possibly dispersed to breed ? Hopefully at some safe protected sites on Mana ?

[mark ayre]

Has any body seen the plover recently or have they moved on.

cheers mark

[ledzep]

I checked weekend 15/16 October at high tide and none were to be seen at Plimmerton. Hopefully all back on Mana Island. I haven't checked out Green Point for a while.

[Brent Stephenson]

Just had a text from a German couple who have been on a couple of our pelagics. They have just seen a shore plover at Plimmerton -1745 Wed 2/11.
Cheers,

[Brent Stephenson]

Just been to Plimmerton and scoured the shoreline. No sign of any shore plover unfortunately. Only consolation this morning was getting on bluebridge after Interislander cancelled our ferry!
Cheers,

[TonyWilson]

Spent over an hour and didn't see anything. A local said she hadn't seen any for a couple of months.
Cheers, Tony.

[robsphotography]

We visited Plimmerton at about 1.15 pm yesterday when the tide was fairly low. We were about to leave when we saw a shore plover that had been hidden in the rocks. Its legs were banded as follows: Left: yellow, red; right: white, blue. I wonder who we can contact to find out what has happened to the other 30 or so shore plovers that were there previously?

Cheers
Rob
http://www.robsphotography.co.nz/Shore-Plover.html
Pictures and video links for the Plimmerton shore plovers

[philbattley]

British photographer Richard Chandler had two birds there today, and even saw a bit of displaying going on between the two. So it may pay to keep a close eye on the antics of any birds there...

Phil

[sav]

Two birds present today at about 11.00 right in front of the fire station. Certainly a male and a female, and very much in each other's company.