TS2 – BIRDLINGS FLAT: MY STONE FOSSICKING

The author on Birdlings Flat, 2016.

Some of the first stones I collected from Birdlings Flat.

Birdlings Flat stones, including beach agates.

From the start, I loved finding yellow quartzites like this.

I first visited Birdlings Flat in May 2016. I have made a number of other visits since. The following are Posts on TumbleStone Blog describing those visits, listed in chronological order:

• “My Visit to Birdlings Flat, Day 1 of 2” – A 3 1/2 hour fossick, along with a drive down Bayleys Road to an area on Kaitorete Spit, a further 9 to 10 kilometres southwards. Eight kilograms of stones collected. May 2016.
• “My Visit to Birdlings Flat, Day 2: Stone Collecting” – An account of a 2 1/2 hours fossick. May 2016.
• “Another Visit to Birdlings Flat, Late June 2016 – Part Three: Seven Types of Stones Collected” – Three visits to Birdlings Flat at the end of June 2016 resulted in another 8 kgs of stones, which I categorised as follows: Yellow-patterned Quartzite; Red Jasper; Agates; Green (Quartzite?); Patterned; White Quartz and Other Light-Coloured; Others. As this was early in my fossicking career, there were limits to my ability to identify stones.
• “Birdlings Flat Stone Collection Trip, February 2020” – I visited Birdlings Flat one or two times per year between 2016 and 2019, but did not write Posts on those trips. This Post was written after a trip in 2020 when I spent five days based in Christchurch, visiting Birdlings Flat beach four times.
• “South Island Stone Collecting Trip, May/June 2020 – First Five Days” – Days 2 and 3 in this Post refer to visits to Birdlings Flat, including some photos of the beach and stones that I collected.
• “February-March 2022 Fossicking Trip: Stone of the Day #1, Birdlings Flat Banded Agate” – A Post focused on a stone but mentioning the fossick that found it. Related is a Post on a fossick the next day further south on Kaitorete Spit “February-March 2022 Fossicking Trip: Stone of the Day #2, Kaitorete Spit Quartzite(?)”.
• “June-July 2022 Fossicking Trip: 2) Birdlings Flat” – An 80 minutes fossick on a foggy winter’s week-day morning.

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