Up to four dabchick on the swallow ponds, and as many as 6 black-tailed godwits were the highlight for April.

Migrants and Vagrants
193 Bar-tailed Godwit
5 Red Knot
6 Black-tailed Godwit
1 Red-necked Stint
15 Turnstone
24 Golden Plover
6 Sharp-tailed Sandpipers

NZ Species
2100 Wrybill
76 Banded Dotterel
2330 South Island Pied Oystercatchers
41 Royal Spoonbill
2 White Heron
Black-billed Gulls
Caspian Terns
White Fronted Tern
Pied Stilts
Hybrid Black Stilt
New Zealand Dotterel
Variable Oystercatchers
1 NZ Dabchick

 

Apr-17 sightings