Showing posts with label Whiskered tern. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Whiskered tern. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Waterbirds of Lilypad Lagoon, Kununurra

By early August we had crossed the border and were staying at Kununurra in northern WA . We were ready for a powered site but the caravan park staff were only able to offer us an unpowered site in the overflow section:


Compared to the powered site gridlock this was brilliant and we happily went without power for another few nights!

The Comb-crested jacana were a family favourite. We loved watching them walk on top of the lily-pads and other vegetation of the lake.


This Intermediate egret hunted near our van quite happily. 

Intermediate egret
Straw-necked ibis 
Here are a few shots showing the acrobatics of Australian reed-warbler:



Masked lapwing - this northern (nominate) race has considerable variation from the race we have down south (which was previously commonly known as Spur-winged plover) 
Whiskered tern
Buff-banded rail (seen while searching for better views of the lifer, White-browed crake, below) 
White-browed crake - there were several of these in our corner of the lake
Great egret contemplating his claws

This water lizard (?Merton's monitor) was lazing within metres of our caravan.

Lily-pad Lagoon, Kununurra

A bit of filter fun on a photo of my brother's campsite

 Bird on!