| Fri 19 | | Yellow-faced Honeyeater (migration)
Mill Stream Lookout (Botany) |
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| A group of around 60 migrating Yellow-faced Honeyeaters was flurrying around between cover in the small vegetated strip between Botany Bay and Foreshore Road. Not much habitat there for them, but I suppose it's not a bad spot to hold up after an exposed flight over the Bay and the Airport. |
| Richard Murray 19/4 #270412 |
|  | Possible South Island Pied Oystercatcher
Lighthouse Beach (Port Macquarie) |
| One SIPO in close company with an Australian Pied Oystercatcher, giving ideal comparative views on the beach and in flight. Seen at fairly close range (to c 40m), so shorter legs, longer bill and when in flight, more extensive white in upperparts. At beach access c 1km s of surf lifesavers station.(Moderator's Note: Posting as a possible until it can be verified. MR). |
| John Grant 19/4 #270411 |
| Thu 18 | | White Tern, Brown Booby, Buller's Shearwater/Albatross
Offshore--Port Stephens pelagic |
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| Great day out of Port Stephens today, with 17 species recorded outside of the heads (including an adult White-bellied Sea-eagle that aborted an attempt at taking a shearwater). Highlights were singles of White Tern, Brown Booby, Buller's Shearwater and Buller's Albatross. There was a good supporting cast of sea monsters, with four huge Mobula Rays (possibly Chilean Devil Rays) seen half way out, a Minke Whale and one of the most endearing pods of Pantropical Spotted Dolphins we've ever had, being ~65-strong and playing/surfing wind waves etc before doing a synchronised departure porpoising as they left, which really felt a lot like a parting gesture. |
| Mick Roderick and all aboard 'Imagine' 18/4 #270410 |
| Sun 7 | | New Caledonian, Band-rumped and Black-bellied Storm-petrels
Britannia Seamount (NSW waters) |
| New Caledonian, Band-rumped and Black-bellied Storm-petrels all seen in NSW waters during a trip to the Britannia Seamount (NSW waters). Also White-faced Storm-petrel, White-necked, Tahiti, Kermadec, Grey-faced Petrels, Wedge-tailed, Flesh-footed, Hutton's, Short-tailed Shearwaters, White-tailed Tropicbird ,Red-footed Booby, White Tern, Sooty Tern, Common Noddy, Lesser Frigatebird. |
| Allan and Rob Benson 19/4 #270413 |