We arrived at Point Impossible to find a full car park, and people, surfboards, and dogs everywhere.
Point Impossible
We were then amazed to find a large flock of Red-capped Plovers and Red-necked Stints in an area that was thankfully clear of people and dogs. Across the river we also saw two Hooded Plovers sheltering in the seaweed.
Minya winery was warmer and drier than last year, but the mud-flats were being enjoyed by some Black-tailed Native Hens.
Minya
We had a good sighting of a Brown Falcon enabling us to check out his distinguishing features. This balanced a quick and frustrating sighting of a raptor that was either a Collared Sparrowhawk or Grey Goshawk. On the island we frightened off a pair of Nankeen Night-Herons and saw many ducks on the distant river.
Nankeen Night-Heron
Flocks of Common Mynas and Starlings were not a welcome sight, but several fly-overs by blue-winged Parrots were a pleasure to see. Coffee on the balcony overlooking the billabong was a very pleasant conclusion to the morning.
Below are all the birds identified on this day:
1. Black Swan
2. Grey Teal
3. Chestnut Teal
4. Hoary-headed Grebe.
5. Great Cormorant
6. Little Black Cormorant
7. Australian Pelican
8.White-faced Heron
9.Nankeen Night-Heron
10. Whistling Kite
11. Swamp Harrier
13. Brown Falcon
13. Australian Hobby
14. Purple Swamphen
15. Black-tailed Native-hen
16. Dusky Moorhen
17. Eurasian Coot
18. Red-capped Plover
19. Hooded Plover
20. Red-kneed Dotterel
21. Masked Lapwing
22. Red-necked Stint
23. Silver Gull
24. Galah
25. Blue-winged Parrot
26. Superb Fairy-wren
27. Striated Fieldwren
28. Striated Thornbill
29. Brown Thornbill
30. Singing Honeyeater
31. Red Wattlebird
32. White-fronted Chat
33. New Holland Honeyeater
34. Australian Magpie
35. Grey Fantail
36. Willy Wagtail
37. Little Raven
38. Magpie-lark
39. Silver eye
40. Welcome Swallow
41. Common Starling
42. Common Myna
Eileen Campbell