Little Terns

[cbrandis <>]

The new Little Tern colony at Windang, ~ 150 Km S of Sydney, first 
breeding for 40 years, is virtually finished yesterday after a heavy 
hail storm.  I found the last 4 nests abandoned, 3 with broken eggs and 
I can not find the last 2 newly hatched chicks.  Good news was that 
there are 3 just fledged juveniles on the roosting area that required 
them to fly over to.
I also found the remains of 2 Red-necked Stints and 1 Red-capped Plover 
partly consumed by Ravens I think, but there were still 95 R-n Stints 
and 41R-c Plovers.  The sand looked like it had been bombed with hail 
dents never more than 50 mm apart so how the small birds survived I do 
not know as I know the golf ball size hail stones really hurt, broke 
windows around the place etc.
Cheers  Chris


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