Spotted today feeding and resting at the Estuary: 1 white-faced heron; 4 banded dotterels; 1 NZ Dotterel; a dozen pied stilts; a dozen variable oystercatchers; numerous gulls and swallows; half a dozen godwits; 80-100 white-fronted terns; 2 caspian terns; 50 or so South Island Pied Oystercatchers; several pied shags.
