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Sighting of a Tui at Leithfield Village .
Hi all- I got out offshore yesterday to about 20 km SE of Akaroa with the following sightings- the flock of 1000′s of fairy prions was especially notable- White-flippered Penguin 4 sighted to 10km offshore Humpback whale 1 tail stock seen -arching Cheers Peter Langlands 37 Short-Tailed Shearwaters found dead on beach 1 Mottled Petrel + Giant Petrel + Albotross Sp all found dead on beach by CCC rangers a day after the storm. Petrel Species seen flying over Little River in bad weather at 8am 4 Tui seen displaying high over coffin rock. 1 Tomtit Alots of Brown creepers And 30+ Swallows on the move 13 Little blue Penguin 1 Pomarine Skua 2 Arctic Skua 1 Fluttering Shearwater Elsewhere 1 NZ Pipit in the carpark 60+ Wellcome swallows flying north Wax eyes on the move again, please report any large flocks. 5 knot 1 curlew 4 Black-fronted Dotteral feeding about 300m from the golf course. 2 Chestnut-breasted Shelduck on the empty pond next to main road. 2 Arctic Skua over head also and 1 Great White Heron in the estuary nest to the south Brighton bridge |
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