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Re: White-winged Black Tern - Hawkes Bay
Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2022 3:29 pm
by sav
WWBT still present today. One of the Little Terns was there yesterday, but not seen by me today, and it looks like all of our Back-fronted Terns have gone (South?).
cheers
Re: White-winged Black Tern - Hawkes Bay
Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2022 3:43 pm
by sav
Hi all,
I was very pleasantly surprised to find the HB White-winged Black Tern still present at the Tukituki rivermouth again this afternoon, after a gap of almost 2 weeks. I thought that the cold weather would have moved this bird on like Sean's Whiskered Tern in Invercargill.
Another surprise was that there were 5 Black-fronted Terns there too, with 4 being immatures. There have only been 2 immatures at most so far this Winter. I wonder where they have been hiding??
cheers
Re: White-winged Black Tern - Hawkes Bay
Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2022 4:26 pm
by sav
Hi all,
White-winged Black Tern still present this afternoon, along with 5 immature Black-fronts (so another increase in the number of immatures?) .
Yesterday there were 2 of our Little Terns at Clive, today one was there.
cheers
Re: White-winged Black Tern - Hawkes Bay
Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2022 7:18 pm
by Michael Szabo
Colin Shields reports via Facebook today seeing a Little Tern and a Black-fronted Tern at the Tukituki River mouth near Haumoana.
Re: White-winged Black Tern - Hawkes Bay
Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2022 3:37 am
by fras444
Really puts into perspective the size difference between the three doesn't it
Re: White-winged Black Tern - Hawkes Bay
Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2022 7:27 am
by Michael Szabo
Yes - a pity the Little Tern didn't land next to them!
Re: White-winged Black Tern - Hawkes Bay
Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2022 7:23 pm
by andrewcrossland
Those legs on that Caspian look extraordinarily long though. Do don't often see them stretch out like that.
Re: White-winged Black Tern - Hawkes Bay
Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2022 7:38 pm
by Oskar
Perhaps raised to keep their body out of that water beneath them?