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 256

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2021

Each of the dark marks in this photo from August, 2018 was a duck. And yet, less than halfway through our 2020-2021 winter dry season, Lake Cuitzeo had essentially dried up. In a normal year, I would report thousands of individual ducks at the lake from February through April; this year, I reported none.

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San Francisco 2018 Mexico Ducks 263

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 26, 2020

There have been good numbers of Australian Wood Ducks near the dam recently. Australian Wood Ducks and Black-shouldered Lapwings. Another small body of water well below the trail adds Pacific Black Duck , Grey Teal and Chestnut Teal to the list and then a lone Australasian Grebe. Two Cattle Egrets with four cows!

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Buffalo Fish Koalas Cattle 157