Boat Harbour (6th April '07)

On Good Friday, Jarrod and I went down to Boat Harbour which is an exposed ocean rock platform south of Botany Bay. Very exposed when we were down there!

My birding website had tipped us off to a Wandering Tattler which has been hanging out down there for a couple of weeks. In the event, there was no sign of the Tattler but there were some great rock-pools.

Sea anemones

Starfish

Despite the absence of the Tattler, the birds were quite good and we spotted two kelp gulls #345 which are certainly not very common and also a few double-banded plovers #346 which come over here from New Zealand each winter and which I have failed to catch in previous years.

Kelp gulls (and Sooty oystercatcher)

Sheltering Nankeen kestrel