2/10/09 Overcast but calm at dawn. By 8am the wind had increased to E3 with light rain. Soon after very heavy rain persisted until 2pm when it stopped allowing us to get back out birding until 5.30pm in overcast conditions with the wind now S3. A total of 6 White's Thrushes were seen on the Central Track soon after dawn and a Radde's Warbler was seen along the Western Perimeter Track. A Little Ringed Plover had been grounded on the south western beach and the Whinchat had remained much to the delight of Aki who had twitched it from Tokyo.
The School Field
Juvenile Little Ringed Plover on the south western beachSpecies noted:
Streaked Shearwater 10
Eastern Reef Egret 1
Grey Heron 4
Mandarin Duck 11
Teal 9
Mallard 3
Black-eared Kite 5
Hobby 1
Peregrine 2
Little Ringed Plover 1
Far Eastern Curlew 1
Black-tailed Gull 100
Vega Gull 2
Rufous Turtle Dove 3
Cuckoo sp. 1
Olive-backed Pipit 1
Black-backed Wagtail 20
Siberian Stonechat 2
Whinchat 1
Blue Rock Thrush 6
White's Thrush 6
Japanese Grey Thrush 1 male
Pale Thrush 2
Eye-browed Thrush 8
Dusky Thrush 3
Japanese Bush Warbler 5
Middendorff's Warbler 1
Arctic Warbler 6
Radde's Warbler 1
Blue-and-white Flycatcher 2
Brown Flycatcher 1
Large-billed Crow 4
White-cheeked Starling 1
Brambling h
Oriental Greenfinch 20
Black-faced Bunting 14
Little Bunting 2
