Treats on the shell banks at the moment include a black tailed godwit, a whimbrel and an arctic tern was spotted after the recent AGM. A handful of knot are looking strangely very red at the moment too – a nice sight to see though. s list is some of the species seen at Miranda in recent weeks:
| Arctic Migrants and Vagrants: |
Black Tailed Godwit 1 Red Knot c.600 Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Pacific Golden Plover Red-necked Stint Turnstone 2 Whimbrel 1 Curlew Sandpiper 2 Terek Sandpiper – Pectoral Sandpiper – Large Sand Dotterel – Arctic skua – |
| New Zealand Species |
| Wrybill c.2000
South Island Pied Oystercatcher c.1800 Variable Oystercatcher Several New Zealand Dotterel 13 Banded Dotterel 120 Caspian Tern 80 Little Tern 1 Black-billed Gull c.100 Red-billed Gull Many White-fronted Tern Many Pied Stilt (incl. smudgy) 500 Black Stilt – Royal Spoonbill 20 White Heron – Banded Rail – Bittern – Spotless Crake – NZ Shoveler – Grey Teal – Brown Teal – Little Black Shag 16 |