Back to Kelly Swamp for the
famous VIEW FROM THE NORTH END, from between the ‘Ardea’ and ‘Bittern’
hides, as labelled by Harvey Perkins. Each year thousands of drop-ins
experience these convenient hides, from overseas visitors with heavy cameras to
small shrill children that have trailed after their parents on tiny pink
bicycles. (Long range visitors – such as from Europe or North
America – should check near the time before making a special trip, as, like
Lake Eyre, The Swamp is sometimes waterless.)
Here, in a typical scene, a
female ‘dark’ (rufous) morph Little Eagle ignores its staple prey, a
plump rabbit, to pursue a juvenile Royal Spoonbill, while its pale-morph mate
circles overhead.
