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157) Little Pied Cormorant - Fogg Dam, Northern Territory, Australia - 16/08/2020

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This is a definite EBC but as I don't see these birds all that often, I'm going with it

 

158) Brolga - Fogg Dam, Northern Territory, Australia - 16/08/2020

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Today was a very exciting day for Darwin birders.  The word went out - get down to East Point, we have a rare vagrant.  So rare in fact it may be the first sighting in the Northern Territory.  Of course I saw this as I was leaving work so headed straight there without my camera, my phone my only recording device :wacko:.  Anyway I got there wondering if I would find it - which of course I did, easily as there was a group of 6 birders there already with scopes and cameras pointed in the right direction!  The wisdom of the gathered birders was that it wasn't the first sighting of the species, but the second.  There was one previously recorded sighting in 1993.  A lifer for me too.  

 

So here they are - crap photos of the first degree, the second taken through someone's scope - but photos.  Apparently it was also spotted yesterday so I will go down again tomorrow to try for better.  

 

159) Black Noddy - East Point, Darwin, Northern Territory - 17/08/2020

 

Can you find it?

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Through the scope

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An exciting sighting, congratulations! I always have my camera in the trunk of my car when going to work. Good luck tomorrow!

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great sighting and still worthwhile taking a detour to the place with an EBC (yes i found it) even without a camera. never take chances as we learn here as there are many one-day birds that transit through a spot, and then vanishes the next day, or sometimes within the same day like the curlew sandpiper which we missed by one day :( .

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17 minutes ago, michael-ibk said:

An exciting sighting, congratulations! I always have my camera in the trunk of my car when going to work. Good luck tomorrow!

Smart move but I would worry about it I’m sure, especially during the humid wet season. 

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3 minutes ago, Kitsafari said:

great sighting and still worthwhile taking a detour to the place with an EBC (yes i found it) even without a camera. never take chances as we learn here as there are many one-day birds that transit through a spot, and then vanishes the next day, or sometimes within the same day like the curlew sandpiper which we missed by one day :( .


Yes I’m glad I went to see it, even without my camera

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Smart move. Take every chance as it comes it may be the only one. Great EBC too even without the scope.

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An exciting sighting and at least you got a shot!

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So yesterday I went back to East Point and the noddy was still there - yay!  Today I went because my husband wanted to go have a look and it was gone.  

 

Here are a couple of better images snagged yesterday.

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I managed to get a couple of new species as well.

 

160) Common Sandpiper - East Point Reserve, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia - 18/08/2020

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161) Striated Heron - East Point Reserve, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia - 18/08/2020

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Those photos were certainly worth going back for!

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4 hours ago, PeterHG said:

Those photos were certainly worth going back for!

Ditto.

Shame about Mr Shazdwn.

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@shazdwn, lovely shot of the Eastern Curlew on the Darwin mudflats. I wish we had a WA, SA NT "bubble"....

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5 hours ago, elefromoz said:

@shazdwn, lovely shot of the Eastern Curlew on the Darwin mudflats. I wish we had a WA, SA NT "bubble"....

Me toooooo. I’m currently meant to be in the Arctic 😞 and am aching for a holiday - keep thinking a road trip to WA would be brilliant. Oh well we have a couple of weekends away closer to home coming up to look forward to. 

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  • 3 weeks later...

A weekend fishing trip snagged me one new species - its going to be a hard slog getting to 200!  Sorry about the heat haze.  

 

162) Great-billed Heron - Bynoe Harbour, Northern Territory, Australia - 5/09/2020

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what a good looking Noddy on a close-up image. 

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163) Beach Stone-curlew - Casuarina Coastal Reserve, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia - 12/09/2020

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Our migratory shorebirds are starting to return after their northern hemisphere sojourn.  Shame we don't get to see them in their full breeding plumage (which would also make them much easier to ID) but good to see them back.  Yesterday I headed to a local wetland that  was reported to have an unusual sighting (pectoral sandpiper).  The wetland is nearly dried out, but there is enough water left to make it sandpiper heaven with 5 species of sandpipers spotted - all new to my BY.  So here goes.

 

164) Pectoral Sandpiper - Knuckey Lagoon, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia - 15/09/2020

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165) Curlew Sandpiper - Knuckey Lagoon, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia - 15/09/2020

 

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166) Sharp-tailed Sandpiper - Knuckey Lagoon, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia - 15/09/2020

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167) Wood Sandpiper - Knuckey Lagoon, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia - 15/09/2020

 

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168) Marsh Sandpiper - Knuckey Lagoon, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia - 15/09/2020

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And a non-sandpiper

 

169) Australian Pratincole - Knuckey Lagoon, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia - 15/09/2020

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