A visit to the Mallacoota WWTP

 The weather was "interesting" for the day with the maximum 27.8C occurring at 0324 hrs while the minimum up to 1437 hrs of 23C occurred at 0755 hrs.  There has been no rain here yet, but lots of cloud, including these lennies (ie lenticular clouds) looking like flying saucers around dawn.  (You can tell they aren't from Elon's shop as they haven't exploded.)

The blossom in the forest and woodland isn't only attracting fruit bats.  Beekeepers are leaving their distinctive traces as well.

Heading in to the Plant the Jacky Winters were much more noticeable than in recent visits.  Their name suggests they are a Winter bird but we seem to see them year round.

In fact the fence around the hoss paddock seemed to be quite attractive as a hunting perch to a range of species (as is usually the case in the cooler months).

I ended up writing down 29 species with several goodies.  This image is not good - even CrapBirdPhotography.com would have some issues with this, but it is 3 Eastern Horse Egrets (there were 2 hosses in the paddock while the nearest bovines were 4km away at the Narrows).

I won't use them as BirdADay as they are easy to spot while driving to and from Melbourne.  Scarlet Robin was a contender, but once they have returned from their breeding range should be easy to spot in the future.  In the past Pink-eared Duck were present in large numbers - up to 150 birds.  But they have been sparse recently so get the gig as BAD.