A great mornings birding was had at this site with the appearance of three species of locally uncommon to rare species of waders.

Ruff, Nathan Road Wetlands Oct '15	Wood Sandpiper, Nathan Road Wetlands Oct '13
Pectoral Sandpiper, Nathan Road Wetlands Oct'13

On arriving local Brisbane birder Ged Tranter was walking through the gate. I soon followed and found Ged waiting at the treeline enjoying the pair of Black-necked Storks soaking up the morning sun at the western end of the lagoon. While waiting for the Storks to leave

, Rufous Whistlers and a Fan-tailed Cuckoo were observed in the She-oak stand. Horsfield’s Bronze-cuckoo was calling in the distance.

After the storks left we advanced to an area allowing us to scan the edges of the waterbody for waders. Ged relocated the Wood Sandpiper that he found over a week beforehand. Scanning the nearby Sharp-tailed Sandpipers he picked up a single Pectoral Sandpiper. After we were watching these for quite a while (including the waders crouching low to the ground as a Brown Goshawk flew over), a Swamp Harrier flew over putting everything up. Relocating was neccessary to scan through the flocks of waders again and Ged mentioned that he was thinking of going to Kedron Brook Wetlands and I jokingly said he would probably find a Ruff there. Right at the end of that sentence there were some excited expletives coming from Ged and the phrase I think I have a Ruff. Indeed he did. Unfortunately all my photos were pretty poor from the morning (as usual) but Ged managed some good shots. I have used shots from 2013 of Wood and Pec Sands from this site to add to the shot of the Ruff to illustrate this post.