White-winged black tern, Bromley WTP

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AngryBird45
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Re: White-winged black tern, Bromley WTP

Postby AngryBird45 » Mon May 03, 2021 3:29 pm

Well, Dyers Rd is better than Breezes Rd for pulling over in terms of the amount of birds.
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Re: White-winged black tern, Bromley WTP

Postby wazzagonewild » Mon May 03, 2021 6:01 pm

Here's the best I could get from a couple of hundred shots.
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Re: White-winged black tern, Bromley WTP

Postby andrewcrossland » Mon May 03, 2021 9:16 pm

any pics of the reported Northern Shoveler? And remember that a UBR is needed. There hasn't been one there for a while so great that one is back!
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Re: White-winged black tern, Bromley WTP

Postby AngryBird45 » Tue May 04, 2021 8:11 am

The Northern Shoveler isn't as important to me as the White-winged Black Tern; I already saw one in Pegasus last year.

However the Northern Shoveler can be reported, contrary to the fact that the White-winged Black Tern can only be reported if it's breeding.
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Re: White-winged black tern, Bromley WTP

Postby wazzagonewild » Tue May 04, 2021 6:12 pm

Distant shot of the northern shoveler. Will submit a UBR so it is in the official record.
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Re: White-winged black tern, Bromley WTP

Postby andrewcrossland » Tue May 04, 2021 6:41 pm

Good job. Even though these have become fairly common place, like the Gull-billed Terns they'll be gone and just memories soon so really important to keep recording them and to document any that (unlike this one but like that WW Bl Tern) change over to a Southern Hemisphere moult cycle. cheers.
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Re: White-winged black tern, Bromley WTP

Postby Adam C » Fri May 28, 2021 1:39 pm

WWBT present today hawking all by itself over pond 2a. Very distant and only had a 400mm on me but a few record shots massively cropped.
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