Twitchathon early moves

Here is how we spent the first few minutes of twitchathon 2015! We had to walk / wade through waist high water to get out to Pelican Island. Some of the birds we saw there are nowhere else within 30kms from here. The main ones we scored here were Mangrove Gerygone, Whimbrel, Bar-tailed Godwit, Eastern Curlew, Pied Oystecatcher, Osprey, Gull-billed and Common Terns. The Mangrove Gerygone came up close to us after a whistle just prior to kick-off at 4pm!

After we waddled back to the carpark dripping wet we shot off to our next site where I located a sole female Southern Emu-wren lurking in the undergrowth. A minute later we were all also onto a stunning male Red-backed Fairy-wren which was a surprise as I thought we would miss it on this twitch! Happy days as our score began to climb ......