g'day All,
Niven (Darwin) & Andy (Cairns) postings have prompted me
to add the following.....
The number of birds on our Lake Moondarra is returning back
towards its normal numbers since our wet season.
Several months ago it was the sole domain of Cormorants,
Darters, Jacana's and our growing colony of 3 dozen Green Pygmy-geese.
At one secluded and rarely visited western bay, the birds
on Friday 18/8/00 included ...
-- 60+ Black
Swans (including 2 shepherding 6 cygnets in line astern
formation)
-- 1000's of Pacific Black Ducks &
Hardheads
-- a few Aust. Wood Ducks and
Pink-eared Ducks
-- 100's Coots,(there are normally
1000's)
-- 33 Plumed Whistling-Ducks,
-- Caspian, Gull-billed and Whiskered
Terns (sunning themselves together)
-- a few Straw-necked and Glossy
Ibis
-- a few Pelican,
Int' & Great
Egrets
--- Masked Lapwings, Black-winged Stilts, Aust
Grebe, etc
-- 2 Red-capped Plover
-- 1 Marsh Sandpiper
-- 1 Sharptailed
Sandpiper
(At another bay, near the Clear Water Sedimentation Lagoon, a
rarish visitor, 30+ Wandering Whistling-Duck)
Regards, Bob Forsyth, Mount Isa, NW Qld.
ps A Common Sandpiper arrived at the Sewage Ponds 2 weeks
ago...BF
