10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2020

As we all well know there is something very different about 2020. Following on from our first camping trip for 2020 we took another camping trip a bit further afield. Having observed the Cattle Egret in breeding plumage at the Derby Poo Ponds on June 19th we found ourselves at Windjana Gorge first thing the following morning.

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2020 Australia Cattle Groups 261

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2021

And yet, less than halfway through our 2020-2021 winter dry season, Lake Cuitzeo had essentially dried up. While numbers were low, our first migratory Baird’s Sandpipers and Wilson’s Phalaropes had arrived from their breeding grounds up north, right on time. Each of the dark marks in this photo from August, 2018 was a duck.

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San Francisco 2018 Mexico Ducks 264

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 26, 2020

When I returned to the small dam where there had been so many Australian Wood Ducks earlier in the day I discovered that the eleven cows had been joined by two Cattle Egrets. There had been quite a few Cattle Egrets in the area until recently and so it was good to see them for the first time in 2020.

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Buffalo Fish Koalas Cattle 160