On visiting Quarry Beach on 14 March Frances was taken by the bravery of this Pelagonium growing on a rock on the beach. The seaweed in the wider shot shows how rough seas (of which there have been some major examples recently) get right up to it. (The plant is up a bit to the left!)
On the morning walk on 15 March walk we discussed the whereabouts of the Cattle Egrets which have been MIA for a few days. Then I spotted 3 Egret-shapes from Captain Stevenson's Point. On going to investigate I found they were 3 of the Cattle Egrets. In the first image a White-faced Heron (one of 9 in the vicinity) shows the size of the Egrets.
The light wasn't good for a detailed shot, and they seemed surprisingly twitchy for this species, which in my experience is well habituated to hupersonity and its doings.
[A bit further from the beach on getting back home 1 Cattle Egret and a Great Egret - which have been scarce recently around here - turned up to check the paddock behind our house. So the Heron family today has been represented by Great Egret, Cattle Egret, Royal Spoonbill and Australian White Ibis. I'm sure if I'd gone to the right spots I'd have added Eastern Reef Egret and Nankeen Night Heron to that list.]
Coming back along Bastion Beach I couldn't work out from a distance was this was.
A mass of Southern Goose Barnacles (
Lepas australis) washed up on a lump of seaweed. Gulls were gathering for a feed.
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