gemfyre | Gimme days like this everyday

Maybe with the nights a LITTLE warmer.

For lunch I had a really big sandwich. Homemade bread, ham, tomato, mushroom, cheese, lettuce, beetroot! It was huge, and yummy. I think the homemade bread and beetroot made it.

Then I played some Sims!! HALLELUJAH! I have 3 drives on this thing. One will be allocated as a games drive and one as an MP3 drive methinks.

THEN, I went down to the river. Walked a lot further than I intended along Milyu Esturary Reserve on the Melville Water foreshore. All the way from Mill Point Rd carpark to the jetty. Of course, I was looking for waders.

I only saw the red-necked stints today, I think it's still a little early for most things. The stints all hang out in one little groyne beach area. And there are LOADS of them. At first I assumed they were red-capped plovers (which were also there in great numbers) but on closer inspection I realised they were different birds.

Also watched a few oystercatchers feeding. They kinda drill their beaks into the sand and every so often come out with a worm. Sometimes the worm is pretty well stuck and you can see it stretching as they yank it out. Then they wash it in the water and eat it.

So, the bird list for today.

Australian Pelican
Little Pied Cormorant
Little Black Cormorant
Darter
Black Swan
Australian Sheduck
Pacific Black Duck
Australian Wood Duck
Australian White Ibis
Red-Necked Stint (Calidris ruficollis) - NEW!!
Pied Oystercatcher
Red-Capped Plover
Silver Gull
Tern spp.
Galah
Rainbow Lorikeet
Singing Honeyeater
Spotted Dove
Black-Faced Cuckoo Shrike
Australian Raven
Magpie Lark