A quick visit to Lake Lorne in Drysdale this afternoon was rewarded with 23 species in 20 minutes: Silver Gull, Hoary-headed Grebe, Purple Swamphen, Dusky Moorhen, Eurasian Coot, Australian White Ibis, Royal Spoonbill, Eastern Great Egret, Pacific Black Duck, Chestnut Teal, Australian Wood Duck, Hardhead, Blue-billed Duck, Noisy Miner, Eastern Rosella, Red Wattlebird, Little Pied Cormorant, Little Black Cormorant, Masked Lapwing, Common Starling, Australian Magpie, Magpie Lark, Black-shouldered Kite.
The highlights were:
a family of Black Swans feeding near the edge of the lake
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| Black Swan, Lake Lorne, Drysdale |
two Blue-billed Ducks in a territorial dispute over the middle of the lake
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| Blue-billed Duck, Lake Lorne, Drysdale |
and two Hardheads, close enough to the lake edge to get a half reasonable photograph (they are normally further away near the central island)
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| Hardhead, Lake Lorne, Drysdale |
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