Summer starters from NSW Northern Rivers

Sightings anywhere within a 250 km radius of Toowoomba, but excluding the local survey area (see above), for the period 1 Dec 2011 - 29 Feb 2012.

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SAM
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Location: Ballina

Summer starters from NSW Northern Rivers

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Summer starters from Ballina & Lismore area.
Mostly from our Richmond Estuary wader count on 9/12.
Unusaul sighting of Brolgas flying over the Pacfic Hwy at West Ballina.
Also went looking for a reported Barred Cuckoo-shrike at Rocky Ck Dam, no luck with that, but had great views of a male Regent Bowerbirds.

Wedge-tailed Shearwater 19/12/11 off Flat Rock, Ballina
Short-tailed Shearwater 19/12/11 off Flat Rock, Ballina
Great Cormorant 9/12/11 Flat Rock, Ballina
Eastern Reef Egret 9/12/11 Flat Rock, Ballina
Striated Heron 20/12/11 North Creek, Ballina
Black-necked Stork 10/12/11 Summerland Way, Kyogle
Eastern Osprey 1/12/11 Ballina
Brahminy Kite 9/12/11 South Ballina
White-bellied Sea-Eagle 9/12/11 South Ballina
Brolga 9/12/11 Golf Driving Range, West Ballina
Australian Pied Oystercatcher 9/12/11 South Ballina
Sooty Oystercatcher 9/12/11 Flat Rock, Ballina
Pacific Golden Plover 9/12/11 South Ballina
Greater Sand Plover 9/12/11 South Ballina
Bar-tailed Godwit 9/12/11 South Ballina
Whimbrel 9/12/11 South Ballina
Eastern Curlew 9/12/11 South Ballina
Common Greenshank 9/12/11 South Ballina
Terek Sandpiper 9/12/11 South Ballina
Common Sandpiper 11/12/11 Richmond River West Ballina
Grey-tailed Tattler 9/12/11 South Ballina
Wandering Tattler 9/12/11 Flat Rock, Ballina
Ruddy Turnstone 9/12/11 South Ballina
Great Knot 9/12/11 South Ballina
Red Knot 9/12/11 South Ballina
Sanderling 9/12/11 South Ballina
Red-necked Stint 9/12/11 South Ballina
Curlew Sandpiper 9/12/11 South Ballina
Caspian Tern 13/12/11 Yamba
Common Tern 9/12/11 South Ballina
Little Tern 9/12/11 South Ballina
Eastern Rosella 12/12/11 Dunoon
Shining Bronze-Cuckoo (heard) 21/12/11 West Ballina
Australian Reed-Warbler (heard) 21/12/11 West Ballina
Little Shrike-thrush 12/12/11 Rocky Ck Dam, Dunoon
Mangrove Gerygone (heard) 21/12/11 West Ballina
White-throated Honeyeater 5/12/11 Billnudgil
White-cheeked Honeyeater 9/12/11 South Ballina
Little Wattlebird 9/12/11 South Ballina
Regent Bowerbird 12/12/11 Rocky Ck Dam, Dunoon

Cheers, Steve
Ballina
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