Observations

1. Black Swan

   Number observed: 2

   Details: yacht club

2. Maned Duck

   Number observed: X

3. Pacific Black Duck

   Number observed: X

   Details: most at the duck pond

4. Gray Teal

   Number observed: X

   Details: common at the duck pond, a few boat ramp

5. Chestnut Teal

   Number observed: 1

   Details: male with Grey Teal at the duck pond

6. Hardhead

   Number observed: X

   Details: many at the duck pond

7. Musk Duck

   Number observed: 1

   Details: seen well at the yacht club

8. Brown Quail

   Number observed: 1

   Details: heard

9. Australasian Grebe

   Number observed: X

   Details: common

10. Hoary-headed Grebe

    Number observed: 1

    Details: duck pond

11. Crested Pigeon

    Number observed: X

12. Peaceful Dove

    Number observed: X

    Details: heard

13. Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoo

    Number observed: 4

    Details: few heard and seen along the northern foreshore

14. Australian Crake

    Number observed: 1

    Details: heard in a swampy area near the duck pond pump station

15. Eurasian Coot

    Number observed: X

    Details: common

16. Australasian Swamphen

    Number observed: 1

    Details: yacht club

17. Masked Lapwing

    Number observed: 2

18. Silver Gull (Silver)

    Number observed: X

    Details: a few

19. Whiskered Tern

    Number observed: 2

    Details: scarce this year, two seen over reeds near the yacht club

20. Australasian Darter

    Number observed: 6

21. Little Pied Cormorant

    Number observed: X

22. Great Cormorant

    Number observed: X

    Details: common, many large flocks

23. Little Black Cormorant

    Number observed: X

    Details: a few

24. Pied Cormorant

    Number observed: 2

    Details: two soaring high over the duck pond

25. Australian Pelican

    Number observed: 70

    Details: many flocks overhead, some fishing in the wetlands

26. Pacific Heron

    Number observed: 3

27. Great Egret

    Number observed: 6

    Details: good views of some

28. White-faced Heron

    Number observed: X

29. Australian Ibis

    Number observed: X

30. Straw-necked Ibis

    Number observed: X

31. Royal Spoonbill

    Number observed: 6

    Details: seen well

32. Yellow-billed Spoonbill

    Number observed: 1

    Details: over the north-east end of the wetlands

33. Black-shouldered Kite

    Number observed: 1

    Details: duck pond, juvenile

34. Little Eagle

    Number observed: 2

    Details: light morph, hills near the duck pond

35. Wedge-tailed Eagle

    Number observed: 5

    Details: a few seen over the nearby hills, also nesting

36. Swamp Harrier

    Number observed: 1

    Details: seen well over rushes

37. Brown Goshawk

    Number observed: 2

    Details: nesting

38. Collared Sparrowhawk

    Number observed: 1

    Details: dead bird found at the yacht club

39. Whistling Kite

    Number observed: X

    Details: common, one observed catching a fish

40. White-bellied Sea-Eagle

    Number observed: 2

    Details: pair seen in the distance over the wetlands

41. Laughing Kookaburra

    Number observed: X

42. Sacred Kingfisher

    Number observed: 2

    Details: just west of the boat ramp

43. Australian Kestrel

    Number observed: X

44. Australian Hobby

    Number observed: 1

    Details: yacht club

45. Brown Falcon

    Number observed: 2

46. Peregrine Falcon

    Number observed: 2

    Details: yacht club, seen well

47. Galah

    Number observed: X

48. Little Corella

    Number observed: X

49. Sulphur-crested Cockatoo

    Number observed: X

    Details: very common

50. Eastern Rosella

    Number observed: X

51. Red-rumped Parrot

    Number observed: X

52. Purple-crowned Lorikeet

    Number observed: 12

    Details: seen well in flowering gums near the yacht club

53. Brown Treecreeper

    Number observed: X

54. Superb Fairywren

    Number observed: X

55. Noisy Miner

    Number observed: X

56. Red Wattlebird

    Number observed: X

    Details: many in flowering gums by the yacht club

57. White-plumed Honeyeater

    Number observed: X

    Details: in flowering gums

58. Blue-faced Honeyeater

    Number observed: 2

    Details: yacht club

59. Black-chinned Honeyeater

    Number observed: 4

    Details: frustrating views near the yacht club, seen better at the boat ramp

60. Painted Honeyeater

    Number observed: 1

    Details: heard briefly at the woodland along Lake Mokoan Rd, many mistletoe in the woodland, seen before in the Chesney Hills to the north so not a completely unexpected record, still a good one though

61. Little Friarbird

    Number observed: 2

    Details: yacht club

62. Noisy Friarbird

    Number observed: 4

    Details: yacht club, flowering gums

63. Striated Pardalote

    Number observed: X

    Details: a few

64. Yellow-rumped Thornbill

    Number observed: 2

65. White-browed Babbler

    Number observed: 4

    Details: seen well at the boat ramp

66. Black-faced Cuckooshrike

    Number observed: 2

67. White-winged Triller

    Number observed: 1

    Details: heard singing by Lake Mokoan Rd just west of the duck pond

68. Gray Shrikethrush

    Number observed: X

69. Rufous Whistler

    Number observed: 1

    Details: heard yacht club

70. Olive-backed Oriole

    Number observed: 1

    Details: seen well at the yacht club

71. White-breasted Woodswallow

    Number observed: 2

    Details: a couple

72. Dusky Woodswallow

    Number observed: 3

    Details: Lake Mokoan Rd woodland

73. Australian Magpie

    Number observed: X

74. Willie-wagtail

    Number observed: X

75. Magpie-lark

    Number observed: X

76. Restless Flycatcher

    Number observed: 4

    Details: yacht club and boat ramp

77. White-winged Chough

    Number observed: X

78. Australian Raven

    Number observed: X

79. Little Raven

    Number observed: X

80. Golden-headed Cisticola

    Number observed: 6

    Details: seen well in long grassland by the yacht club

81. Australian Reed Warbler

    Number observed: 4

    Details: in rushes by the northern foreshore

82. Little Grassbird

    Number observed: 1

    Details: heard far out in bullrush from the boat ramp

83. Rufous Songlark

    Number observed: 2

    Details: a couple

84. Welcome Swallow

    Number observed: X

    Details: common

85. Fairy Martin

    Number observed: 20

    Details: around a culvert on the Lake Mokoan Rd

86. Tree Martin

    Number observed: X

    Details: only a few today

87. European Starling

    Number observed: X

88. Common Myna

    Number observed: 2

89. Eurasian Blackbird

    Number observed: 2

    Details: couple near the boat ramp

90. Mistletoebird

    Number observed: X

    Details: few zipping overhead

91. Diamond Firetail

    Number observed: 1

    Details: heard breifly at the Lake Mokoan Rd woodland

92. Zebra Finch

    Number observed: 12

    Details: flock along the Lake Mokoan Rd by the old orchard

93. House Sparrow

    Number observed: X

94. Australasian Pipit

    Number observed: 1