10 10.07

BIRD WATCHING AT FREDS

Went bird watching today with Dorothy a friend of Fred and Pam; she is very passionate about her vocation and does an official count each month. The birds of interest, Eastern Curlew, Bar-tailed Godwit, Common Greenshank, Redcapped Plover, Red necked Stint, Gull Faced tern, and a pair of Pied Oyster Catchers, were in the upper reaches of Cooloola Cove on a large area of swamp land. We had to walk quite a distance along the shore line, sometimes wading in the water; it was all very interesting as these birds migrate here from Siberia.

In the afternoon Fred and I went to Rainbow Beach fishing where Fred caught two Dart and a Bream in the surf and I caught zip. There were whales out in the bay that made it very entertaining by whacking their tails in the water and leaping out with a great amount of splashing. The girls went into TCBay for coffee.