Oct-15 Sightings

The end of October and early November saw a sighting of Banded Rail back on Widgery Lake.  A grey teal family on the lake is actually the first record of teal breeding on the lake.

Migrants and Vagrants
3900 Bar-tailed Godwit
600 Red Knot
1 Hudsonian Godwit
1 Marsh Sandpiper
3 Curlew Sandpiper
7 Pacific Golden Plover
3 Red-necked Stint
3 Turnstone
1 Pectoral Sandpiper
1 Sharp-tailed Sandpiper

NZ Species
c300 Wrybill
Banded Dotterel
500+ South Island Pied Oystercatchers
44 Royal Spoonbill
1 White Heron
600+ Black-billed Gulls
27 Caspian Tern
White Fronted Tern
997 Pied Stilts
Hybrid Black Stilt
New Zealand Dotterel
Variable Oystercatchers