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Windjana Gorge in 2020

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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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A Lake Reborn… sort of

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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.