Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Osprey sight brings bonus flight

Eastern Osprey (Pandion cristatus) on driftwood and in air offers bonus sight along Lucinda sandspit today.

Target bird, leucistic Eastern Curlew (Numenius madagascariensis), showed up and showed out, but did not allow any closeups. 

4 comments:

Sonja said...

It really does look odd, doesn't it!

mick said...

An amazing bird that leucistic Eastern Curlew! and great to get a photo of it.

David M. Gascoigne, said...

Leucistic birds are especially interesting. We had a leucistic American Robin in our neighborhood this year.

Denis Wilson said...

Nice find, Tony.
Denis

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