Twofold post: scrounging a lift to the Western Treatment Plant / RFI St Kilda.

["michael norris" <>]

Hi Tony

I guess you are ticking!

Can't help with the WTP but I have a very good idea about the birds along 
the coast.  St Kilda is a bit north of my patch - the City of Bayside (which 
starts about 10km south of the Melbourne CBD) - but I guess that Black-faced 
Cormorant would be rare there as it is here (5 records this century).
Pacific Gulls are increasingly common as you go south.  You would almost 
certainly find them if you went to Brighton Beach, Hampton, or Sandringham 
stations on the Sandringham railway line from Flinders Street.   Head for 
the foreshore, find the path nearest to the beach, and walk back towards the 
City, get a train back from another station north (not so easy from Brighton 
Beach but if you get to the Brighton Marina you could find your way - about 
1km).
Best of luck

Michael Norris
Bayside Friends of Native Wildlife