Saturday was a special day to go bird watching. Not only was it world E-Bird day – E Bird is a world wide birdwatching website hosted by Cornell University in USA – the weather was still and warm and Onoke Spit was full of birds.
The banded dotterels were gathered together in big numbers.

There were at least 250 white fronted terns.

It was also very exciting to see a number of Caspian Terns – about 40 and some beautiful little black fronted terns visiting from the South Island.
Enjoy these other pictures.

One mature and a juvenile black fronted tern

Black fronted tern stretching his wings in the sunshine

One Caspian tern amongst the smaller white fronted terns