Trip Info/Bird Photo's By Young Birders

[Wrybill]

I am Trying to revive this subforum. Hopefully this goes well!!
I will post bird photographs and trip Information.
Other Birders are welcome to add their own information and Photos too.

To start It off This is my trip Report from today at the Waitohu Stream Mouth.
We started at 1:50 and walked down the track from Moana street saw Goldfinch, Sparrow, Blackbird Etc. On Passing the Spinifex Dune we Saw Black-Fronted Dotterel, Pheasant {calling} and Welcome swallow then we turned and followed the stream towards the beach. However we could not cross it was raining and the tide was rising. We added Gannet and Black backed Gull also Red bills two only and that was about it we Checked the Beach for dead seabirds but with No avail- and Started to head back One WFT and a Tui Flying Over. On Return I decided we should do a Checklist for the Wetlands a Pair of Fantails, Greenfinch, Swallows, Waxeye and some Goldfinch. There we ended our Count. When we had ended The Total was 14 species for the stream mouth and 8 for the wetlands area.

View the eBird Checklist's

Mouth - https://ebird.org/atlasnz/checklist/S127058900

Wetland - https://ebird.org/atlasnz/checklist/S127059049

[Wrybill]

Bevan Knox Reserve South Waitohu Stream Mouth February 1
Started off Down the Track at North End of Marine Parade and Walked Down to the Seat Looked along the beach adding Variable oystercatcher red bills and Black backs also a gannet headed back down the track and took one of the side tracks adding waxeye Yellowhammer and Skylark coming down along the stream I added Pied stilt Spur-winged plover New Zealand Dotterel and a Bandie heading back down the track I added Blackbird 2 swallow and a Tui Returning I decided to check the beach down the by the seat and added 16 WFT Offshore feeding also a Flock of House sparrow-120 I returned to Marine Parade and Ended My Count Total Species was 19.

eBird Checklist - https://ebird.org/atlasnz/checklist/S127410816

[nzrobin]

Nice Wrybill some good birds there, were did you take this picture?

A

[AlfieB77]

Here’s our list of what was seen from a 3-day tramping trip in the Kahurangi National Park:

NZ Fantail
Blue Duck
NZ Falcon
Yellow Crowned Parakeet
Kea
Brown Creeper
Rifleman
Tomtit
SI Robin
Tui
Bellbird
Chaffinch
Eurasian Blackbird
Great Spotted Kiwi
Morepork
Weka
Australasian Harrier
Kereru
Grey Warbler
Welcome Swallow
Silvereye

And some photos:

[Wrybill]

Nice Photo's Especially of the Robin.

[Wrybill]

Here Is My trip To Waitohu Estuary on 15 February

Tide-Mid

22 Species + 1 Taxa/Hybrid

3 Pied Stilt
8 Variable Oystercatcher
5 Goldfinch
41 Black Backed Gull
6 Red Billed Gull
2 Welcome Swallow
1 SIPO (South Island Pied Oystercatcher)
112 White Fronted tern
1 Common tern-Ongoing Bird
1 Kingfisher
1 Black-Fronted Tern
3 Spur-winged plover
4 Mallard x Grey duck Hybrid
5 Caspian tern
5 New Zealand Dotterel
9 Banded Dotterel
1 New Zealand Kingfisher
1 Magpie
2 Skylark
2 Welcome Swallow
2 Waxeye
4 Starling
5 House Sparrow
5 Goldfinch

[Wrybill]

Otaki Sewage Ponds Afternoon of 20 February

17 Species + 1 Taxa/Hybrid

68 New Zealand Shoveler
75 Paradise Shelduck
6 New Zealand Scaup
1 Little-Black Shag
16 Rock Pigeon
1 New Zealand Dabchick
2 Black-Fronted Dotterel
10 Spur Winged Plover
6 Pied Stilt
11 Mallard x Grey duck hybrid
26 Grey Teal
1 Welcome Swallow
5 Waxeye
1 Blackbird
3 House Sparrow
4 Goldfinch
1 Starling
3 Swamp Harrier

Unfortunately No photos for this trip

[nzrobin]

Good job all!