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Common Tern - Foxton Beach
Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2018 7:38 pm
by sav
Hi all,
Neil Robertson reports a Common Tern at Foxton Beach this afternoon. There are photos (by Imogen Warren) on the NZ Bird id Facebook page.
cheers
Re: Common Tern - Foxton Beach
Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2018 10:10 pm
by sav
Hi all,
What is presumably the same bird, but now with more white on the fore-crown, was present today. Also a Curlew Sand and a NZ Dotterel.
Our tour is going well after 9 days of mostly tragic weather. We are missing nothing except Pycroft's Petrel (due to cancelled pelagic) and NZ Falcon and leave the North Island tomorrow with a lsit of 114 so far.
cheers
Re: Common Tern - Foxton Beach
Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2018 7:28 am
by Nikki McArthur
Hi all,
The common tern was present again at around 10.30am on the 6th Dec. Great views of it sitting on its own at the high tide roost. No sign of the curlew sand.
Cheers,
Nikki
Re: Common Tern - Foxton Beach
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2019 10:05 pm
by Davidthomas
Probably the same bird was present again today around 6:30-7pm. Got some reasonable photos but nowhere near as good as Imogen’s due to being directly into the descending sun. Strikingly different cap colour, head shape and beautiful dark grey wing coverts, dark carpal bar and primaries without any white cutbacks.
Also present was a single PGP, the Curlew sandpiper, 60+ Knots, 100+ Godwits, 20+ Banded Dotterel, and 20+ Wrybill.
Re: Common Tern - Foxton Beach
Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2019 11:32 pm
by sav
Hi all,
Presumably the same Common Tern was present today through the high tide. Very few White-fronted Tern present.
Also a Curlew Sand and 24 very friendly Wrybill. Views down to below 5m!
cheers
Re: Common Tern - Foxton Beach
Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2019 6:40 am
by imogen
Curlew sandpiper has been present now for 2 months. Looking very healthy.
- Curlew Sandpiper 22012019-4.jpg (266.74 KiB) Viewed 2095 times
Good views of the common tern
- Common Tern 22012019-3.jpg (185.97 KiB) Viewed 2095 times