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10 May 2025 Pending Notes:

Pelican, swan.

It is becoming increasingly difficult to measure berm hight, so we are taking some liberties with the measurements. As a result stated measurements should have a +/- factor.

12 Apr 2025 Pending Notes:

Pelicans, swans, chestnut teals, pacific black duck, houry headed grebes, masked lapwing, silver gull.

15 Mar 2025 Pending Notes:

Swans, pacific black ducks, pelican, greater cormorant.

8 Feb 2025 Pending Notes:

Swans, Silver gull, Many ducks on shore line, 

 

Mini dune formations on beach.

Dune blowout.

11 Jan 2025 Approved Notes:

Hooded plovers (warning signs up), 

Swans 10, Red capped plover, Ducks (many), Sea gulls.

 

 

 

Panoramic photo curtesy Gary Ryan

7 Dec 2024 Approved Notes:

Swans 10, Pacific ducks 50+, Sand Piper ?, Crested Terns 30, Hooded plover.

9 Nov 2024 Approved Notes:

Wedge tailed eagle, pelican, swans, pied oyster catchers, pacific black duck, hooded plovers 16-20.

Possible lathams snipe or stilts x 3.

12 Oct 2024 Approved Notes:

Hooded plover, coots, ducks, white necked heron.

 

 

Kerrie Robertson part of team

14 Sep 2024 Approved Notes:

Weather too wild and wet to take berm measurements. Looked similar to last month.

All good - no worries at all!  Massive berm at present, thanks for letting me know, Jarred.

10 Aug 2024 Approved Notes:

Chestnut teal, Whistling kite, Brown falcon.

 

 

 

Wallaby foot prints.

13 Jul 2024 Approved Notes:

Greater cormorants, swans, hoary headed grebes.

8 Jun 2024 Approved Notes:

Pelicans (many), pied cormorants, swans, silver gulls, masked lapwings, pacific black duck, chestnut teal, raft of grebes (hoary hooded) many more than 100, little egrets, royal spoonbills.

11 May 2024 Approved Notes:

Birds present at site

Pelicans

Black swans

Greater cormorant 

unidentified ducks and grebes

13 Apr 2024 Approved Notes:

Pelicans and lots of ducks

16 Mar 2024 Approved Notes:

Birds present at site

Black Swans

Pacific black ducks

Little grebes

Pied Comorants

9 Feb 2024 Approved Notes:

Measurements underataken by J.Obst as volunteers busy with SW TAFE students on weekend monitoring.

13 Jan 2024 Approved
9 Dec 2023 Approved Notes:

Great work braving the weather everyone - looks pretty rough out there..!  Jarred.

11 Nov 2023 Approved Notes:

Wow - massive berm at present!!! Jarred.O

14 Oct 2023 Approved Notes:

Yellow faced cormorants, Crows, Silver gulls.

9 Sep 2023 Approved
12 Aug 2023 Approved
15 Jul 2023 Approved Notes:

Hooded Plover, Red cap plover, Ruddy turnstones, Little egret, Double banded plover.

 

 

Eleanor Cowell and James Cowell samplers.

 

Thanks again.  Great photos - and yes a very big sandbar remains, with little chance of a natural estuary opening under current conditions... Thanks Jarred.

 

17 Jun 2023 Approved Notes:

Egrets (4), Grebe (1)

High tide seeing sea overflow berm preventing measurements of berm. 

 

Other samplers Eleanor Cowell, James Cowell and Jarred Obst .

 

13 May 2023 Approved Notes:

Ducks? Gulls, White faced heron, Pelican.