Some matte black photos and some Glossy Black ones

As part of of our re-exploring Mallacoota we went for a walk along Quarry Beach on Monday.  This is usually a fairly quiet area for birding and this outing was no exception.  All that I noted wasan immature Silver Gull ...

.. and a bunch of Cormorants on the rocks at the Western end.

In places the black of the burnt Melaleuca armillaris was relieved by some of the bushes on the beach having retained some green.

In the next bay along it was unrelenting black.

Kelp was piled up at the Western end of Quarry, but no sign of the usual shorebirds pecking at the flies that often occur in such situations.

On Tuesday we went for a walk with the Footmobiles group and traversed the caravan park.  Here I first heard and then saw a group of 3 Glossy Black-Cockatoos that have taken up residence.  I returned later and got a few photos.

In both the next two images a flash of red is evident in the tail feathers.  This does lead to some mistaken identification as Red-tailed Black-Cockatoos but the nearest population of them is near Mount Gambier - perhaps 800 km away!

I then went to Captain Stevensons Point where a very good range of sea and shore birds were evident.  They included this Eastern Curlew: from the length of thebill I think a female.