Reply With QuoteNar nar...........no photos, didn't happen!!!!!
How many buckets of prawns?
Fished the rous this morning and bagged out by 11am. It's sad to see a few dead birds around. Picked up the pots for 14 sandies.
Whitting are good size too.
Nar nar...........no photos, didn't happen!!!!!
How many buckets of prawns?
No need photos. We all know what whitting look likes.Originally Posted by Muddy Toes
Noticed a couple of dead birds off Bribie this morning as well ... curiouser and curiouser
Are the mutton birds ?
Media release
Wednesday, 16 October 2013
Mutton Birds on North Stradbroke Island
The birds on North Stradbroke Island appear to be short-tailed shearwater or ‘mutton birds’.
Short-tailed shearwater or ‘mutton birds’ are on their annual 10,000 kilometre non-stop migration
from northern Russia to rookeries in Victoria and South Australia.
Bad weather on this long and exhausting journey can take its toll on the birds. The Department of
Environment and Heritage Protection has received reports of the birds being found on Queensland
beaches – some completely exhausted and many have died.
Over the next few months, dead or exhausted birds may be found along the Queensland coast.
Anyone who finds a dead bird on the beaches is advised, as a precaution, not to handle the bird.
This is not the first time this has occurred. Thousands of short-tailed shearwater birds were found
dead around Moreton Bay in 2011 and Fraser Island in 2006.
Tests at that time confirmed that they died from exhaustion and starvation as a consequence of
the migration. Exhausted and starved birds are also known to wash up on the beaches of Japan,
the Aleutian Islands and North America.
This is part of nature as more than a million migratory birds travel enormous distances to and from
Australia each year, often feeding and roosting alongside resident species on our coast, coral cays
and islands.
Wonder if it is to do with the lack of tailor schools this winter pushing bait up to the surface for them to feed on?
Not enough feed for them to make the journey?
Think its more to do with the head winds.
It must have been 2006 driving of Fraser it was impossible not to run over them.
Mother nature sux some days.
We were on North Straddie the last 2 years at this time and there were so many dead on the beach. I thought it was last year but must have been 2011. Time flies. Poor birds. I remember my little girl getting so upset seeing them.
Nah mate - they don't stop to feed on the way.
There were dozens washing up on Mooloolaba beach all last week.
Really?
Maybe they should...haha!
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