September updates and oddments

This will be a repository for occasional photos that don't merit a blogpost but may be of interest to folk who don't follow the Facebook pages of Mallacoota Birds or Mallacoota Weather and Wildlife.

First up is a nice Eastern Whipbird taken on Lakeside Drive.

 Second is finally catching up with the Balck Swan family: the number of cygnets (4) was more than I was expecting (2)

A Scarlet Honeyeater posed nicely above the Shady Gully boardwalk.

 Very unusually, when it flitted it went to a better pose!

On the morning of 9 September we noticed the Swan family while we were on our morning walk.  At first we thought there was only one cygnet  but then noticed a grey patch on a parent's back,

 After a wee while the grey patch popped into the water, so they still have two left.

 A photogenic bunch of Cormorants (mainly Little Black) on a jetty.

More testing,  A Rainbow Lorikeet flew in.  It was 4 m away for the first shot and about 2 m for the others,