Wednesday, 6 October 2021

Looking for a spectacle

  Yesterday some visiting birders found (and photographed a Spectacled Monarch at the start of the Narrows Track.  I couldn't get there when they found it but as it is only about the 3rd record for Victoria and the normal range ends about Jervis Bay decided to get down there at dawn this morning.  To add to the rarity, the closest recent record on eBird is near Taree, some 650 kms North!
A comment on FB said one had been seen in Croajinalong about 20 years ago.  Birdata shows it as 21 Dec 1999 at Wingan Inlet.

Cutting to the chase I saw the bird, very briefly but couldn't get a photo.  So that is Bird A Day sorted.

Here follow a few photos from my outing.  The big dead tree was decorated with cormorants.  This was an early image: by the time I left (about an hour later) there were about three times this number.

Also on a lower branch of the tree was a surprisingly exposed Nankeen Night Heron/  It was horribly backlit, but Photoshop Express showed the colours better.

Sunrise was interesting albeit not as garish as some days. 


A Kookaburra was kind enough to pose so was photographed.




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