It’s quite easy to spend a few weeks at Lizard Island, with
walks and mountains to climb and shorebirds returning from breeding in
Siberia. A couple of Little Curlews,
which mostly rest and feed up in the grassy fields of northern Australia, Pacific
Golden Plovers, which travel on as far as Tasmania, olive-backed sunbirds and
rainbow bee-eaters everywhere, and a pleasant change for us, no pesky welcome
swallows!
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| Great Egret on the creek |
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| Pacific Golden Plover in moult |
A juvenile black noddy landed on our deck, didn’t seem to be
injured, but sat for ten minutes, preened himself, then flew off to join his
mates and the black-naped terns. The
terns follow the bait fish, who in turn are followed by bigger fish and the
water regularly explodes with a fishing frenzy.
“Noddy” enjoyed himself so much on our boat that he returns every day
now to preen his feathers. I guess he
has replaced the welcome swallows for now.
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| Black-naped terns following the bait fish |
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| Our friendly noddy |
Bird list so far:
Rose-crowned
fruit-dove, Pied Imperial-Pigeon, Bar-shouldered Dove
Little
Curlew, Pacific Golden Plover
Wedge-tailed Shearwater
Eastern Great Egret, White-faced Heron, Little Egret, Eastern
Reef Egret (white morph)
Eastern Osprey, White-bellied Sea-Eagle, Whistling Kite,
Nankeen Kestrel
Brown Booby, Black Noddy, Black-naped Tern, Common Tern, Crested
Tern, Silver Gull
Pheasant Coucal, Rainbow Bee-eater, Black-faced
Cuckoo-shrike, White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike
Silvereyes, White-breasted Woodswallow, Olive-backed Sunbird
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