Loja Wildlife, Granada Province, Spain.: Eagle View, Goolwa beach and Waitpinga Beach, South Australia.

Sunday, 26 November 2023

Eagle View, Goolwa beach and Waitpinga Beach, South Australia.

Rough weather day to start but bright down the beach later.

Australia, Day Eighty.

A soggy start to the day.

Today I woke to heavy, low cloud and drizzle so started by working on the laptop and birding through the window.

Australian Pelicans (Pelecanus conspicillatus) at the Murry Mouth.

Pacific Gull (Larus pacificus).

Sitting there I heard and saw Australian Magpie (Gymnorhina tibicen), Little Raven (Corvus mellori), Common Starling (Sturnus vulgaris), Eurasian Blackbird (Turdus merula), House Sparrow (Passer domesticus), New Holland Honeyeater (Phylidonyris novaehollandiae), Rainbow Lorikeet (Trichoglossus moluccanus), Red (Anthochaera carunculata) and Little Wattlebird (Anthochaera chrysoptera), Superb Fairywren (Malurus cyaneus), Crimson Rosella (Platycercus elegans), Galah (Eolophus roseicapilla),

Australian Pelican (Pelecanus conspicillatus).

Caspian Tern (Hydroprogne caspia).

Whiskered Tern (Chlidonias hybrida).

At around 09:30 Ian said do you fancy a trip down to Goolwa beach for some Birding, Fishing and Cockling to which I said yes and we were soon off.

Fishing on Goolwa Beach.

Goolwa Beach.

Sooty Oystercatcher (Haematopus fuliginosus).

On the way we saw Willie-wagtail (Rhipidura leucophrys), Crested Pigeon (Ocyphaps lophotes), Australian Wood Duck (Chenonetta jubata), Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (Cacatua galerita), Dusky Woodswallow (Artamus cyanopterus), Australian (Threskiornis molucca) and Straw-necked Ibis (Threskiornis spinicollis), Welcome Swallow (Hirundo neoxena) and Western Grey Kangaroo (Macropus fuliginosus fuliginosus).

Pied Oystercatcher (Haematopus longirostris).

Once we were on the beach we headed down to the Murry River Mouth and then turned around and came back to a spot where Ian set up two rods and did some fishing whilst I took some photo's of the birds on the beach and fly passed, these included Australian Pelican (Pelecanus conspicillatus), Silver (Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae) and Pacific Gull (Larus pacificus), Whiskered (Chlidonias hybrida), Great Crested (Thalasseus bergii), Caspian (Hydroprogne caspia) and a single Australian Fairy Tern (Sternula nereis), Pied (Phalacrocorax varius) and Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), Pied (Haematopus longirostris) and Sooty Oystercatcher (Haematopus fuliginosus) and Grey Teal (Anas gracilis).

Pacific Gull (Larus pacificus).

Silver Gull (Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae).

On the way off the beach we stopped a few times and Ian did some Cockling and collected his allowance before we headed around Victor Harbour and out to Waitpinga Beach, on the way we added Little Corella (Cacatua sanguinea), Nankeen Kestrel (Falco cenchroides), Swamp Harrier (Circus approximans), Small White (Pieris rapae) and Common Brown (Heteronympha merope).

Ian getting some Cockles.

We parked and crossed the bridge onto the beach getting some shots of a very well behaved Little Raven on the way, as we walked I added Singing Honeyeater (Gavicalis virescens), Tree Martin (Petrochelidon nigricans), Wedge-tailed Eagle (Aquila audax), White-faced Heron (Egretta novaehollandiae), Hooded Plover (Thinornis cucullatus) as well as more Silver (Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae) and Pacific Gulls (Larus pacificus), Whiskered (Chlidonias hybrida), Great Crested (Thalasseus bergii) and Caspian (Hydroprogne caspia) before we returned to the car.

Little Raven (Corvus mellori).

Great Crested Tern (Thalasseus bergii).

Great Crested Terns (Thalasseus bergii).

Caspian Tern (Hydroprogne caspia).

Silver Gull (Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae) eating a Porcupine Fish.

As we were leaving we had 3 Elegant Parrots (Neophema elegans) and a Common Bronzewing (Phaps chalcoptera) fly up from the road side and during the rest of the drive back to the farm we saw Spotted Dove (Spilopelia chinensis), Black-shouldered Kite (Elanus axillaris), Collared Sparrowhawk (Accipiter cirrocephalus) and Grey Currawong (Strepera versicolor).