

Australian Gannet

Muttonbirds in the mist! A typical sighting of shearwaters. I found it hard to identify these - Short-tailed and Wedge-tailed being the most likely possibilities. Perhaps both were present!



This last one at least must be a Wedgie!

A distant adult Pomarine Jaeger off Long Reef, Sydney

And a closer Parasitic

Hang on - something wrong here...

That's better!




No camera tricks here - just tricks! I don't know much about aerodynamics but I wonder how the birds stayed airborne!




2 comments:
There are thousands of Short-tailed Shearwaters around the past couple of months of the eastern coast. Nice Jaeger images, I wish I was there when it turned up.
Hi Mark
Some of the birds looked to way have way to much 'tail' for Short-tailed - which is why I wondered if they could be Wedge-tailed. Actually the tern roost and Parasitic Jaeger were at Norah Head.
Cheers
Dave
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