6 July 2016
WATERBIRDS OF LOVEDAY COVE - COOBY DAM
During the week, I went to try and get a decent photo of a Musk Duck, after seeing them at Loveday Cove one morning (without my camera). A photo didn't happen this time, but I enjoyed taking photos of some of the other beautiful waterbirds on the dam.
Bird list for this location at the time of visiting:
- Black Swan Cygnus atratus
- Grey Teal Anas gracilis
- Hardhead Aythya australis
- Musk Duck Biziura lobata
- Little Pied Cormorant Phalacrocorax melanoleucos
- Australian Pelican Pelecanus conspicillatus
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Intermediate Egret Mesophoyx intermedia
- Yellow-billed Spoonbill Platalea flavipes
- 2 Whistling Kite Haliastur sphenurus
- 1 White-bellied Sea-Eagle Haliaeetus leucogaster
- Australasian Swamphen Porphyrio melanotus
- Eurasian Coot Fulica atra
- Black-winged Stilt (Australian) Himantopus leucocephalus
- Black-fronted Dotterel Elseyornis melanops
- Superb Fairy-wren Malurus cyaneus
- Australian Magpie Gymnorhina tibicen
- 1 Rufous Whistler Pachycephala rufiventris
- Welcome Swallow Hirundo neoxena
JG
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| Black-winged Stilt, Cooby Dam, 06/07/16 |
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| Australian Pelican, Cooby Dam, 06/07/16 |
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| Black Swan, Cooby Dam, 06/07/17 |
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| Black-fronted Dotterel Cooby Dam 060716 |
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| Great Egret, Cooby Dam, 06/07/16 |
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| Yellow-billed Spoonbill with Eurasion Coots & Black-fronted Dotteral to the left, Cooby Dam 06/07/16 |
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| Whistling Kite that landed for a second on the shore at Cooby Dam, 06/07/16 |
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| Superb Fairy Wren, Cooby Dam, 06016 |
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| Australian Pelican in flight over the water, Cooby Dam, 060716 |
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| Black Swan, Loveday Cove, Cooby Dam, 060716 |
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