On high tide we took our binoculars and scope to the beach to see the shorebirds on the sand spit (at high tide the birds move up the beach and are easier to see together).
About 100 red-necked stints, 17 greater sand plovers, 3 grey-tailed tattlers and 2 pied oystercatchers were sharing the sand spit with 4 caspian terns, 7 crested terns with 2 juveniles, 1 silver gull (there's always one!) and about 20 gull-billed terns and one very small mystery tern, which we couldn't identify. Not one leg flag among them.
We checked the outer beach via the lagoon but the birds were too far away to identify. One sea-eagle in a tree having a good look around.
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