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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Emma" data-source="post: 1668510" data-attributes="member: 20257">Pera Marsh continued.04.12.09 We decided to spend most of the day at Pera Marsh as the weather was looking promising and I needed to come home with at least a bit of a suntan!! On the drive down to the lagoon we spotted an ‘unusual’ bird hovering in the sky, it was the colour of a white dove but was hovering in the air…very unusual! Luckily it landed on one of the telegraph poles and I managed some quick distant photographs, we didn’t have an idea of what it was as the Collins was back at the hotel so we had to wait all day until we could positively ID it…it turns out it was a Black Winged Kite!! We were so pleased with this and it was a cracking bird to see!! The normal waterfowl were out and about but an added bonus today was a Caspian Tern on the water. We decided to walk along the boardwalk, now this isn’t the most aesthetically pleasing boardwalk to look at but it has a bonus in that the birds enjoy perching on the ropes/posts! We managed super views of a Bluethroat and Fan-tailed Warbler on top of one of the bushes and Stonechat were flitting about here, there and everywhere! House Sparrows and Chiffchaf were seen all along the walk and at the ‘open hide’ a flock of 20+ Common Waxbill were seen feeding on the seed heads of the reeds, this was the best views that I had of them but they were far too quick for any decent photographs!! A Black Redstart was also seen perched on one of the ropes on the boardwalk, it looked so bright and fresh with the sand and blue sky behind it!!</blockquote>

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