Well I have been slack and not attending to my blog.
Yesterday I walked the wetland and lots of my friends where there.
Four pairs of Black-winged Stilts took flight and attacked a juvenile Swamp harrier who had been sitting on a fence post watching me walking with Jade. The life of a Swamp harrier is harrowing, I watch them flying along the river as they are constantly attacked by protective parents.
On the billabong there were almost hundreds of Pacific Black Duck, defiantly to many to count, along with the usual Mallard and not so prolific pair of Hardhead and a pair of Australasian Shoveler.
I sometimes wonder if we are in a plague crow time, there are so many of them – do they effect the breeding of other birds by taking their babies.
The beauty of where we live is, while I am sitting here I just watched a pelican fly along the river course and over our house – I have just looked down at the river and there is another.
