Roost heights at Tahuna Torea

Today I took photos of the shorebird roosts at Tahuna Torea when the tide had just covered the main spit roost. The tide height was predicted to be very high today (3 August 2019) at 3.4M Westhaven 8:53am. Conditions were relatively calm and the tide had not (yet) hit the high tide line on the Little spit.

The tide was about 20cm (in height) from the high tide line.

Pathway — And the pathway which is sometimes flooded was about 20cm above the water.

The spit had just been compromised with just a few Black-back gulls and one Caspian tern remaining

Little spit was about 50cm above the tide

Little Godwit Island was about 60cm above the tide

South Godwit Island was about 75cm above the tide

North Godwit Island had about 40cm above the tide

The Southern end of Lockley Island had about 40cm above the tide

The Northern end of Lockley Island had about 40cm above the tide

I have seen tidal debris in the mangroves around Lockley Island that were above the height of the island (indicating that it sometimes gets swamped) but I think it would have made an ok roost today.