Monday 6 August 2007

Hastie's Swamp again

This time we watched the birds from the top floor of Queensland Parks and Wildlife's splendid hide at Hastie's Swamp near Atherton, FNQ.

Plumed whistling ducks (Dendrocygna eytoni)


Azure kingfisher (Ceyx azura)


White-breasted sea eagle (Haliaetus leucogaster) a long way away


Comb-crested jacana (Jacana gallinacea), also a long way away


Intermediate egret (Ardea intermedia) (What sort of unimaginative name is that?)


Swamp hen (Porphyrio porphyrio) hanging out with the whistling ducks


You didn't think I was going to leave without photographing this fellow? An Australasian grebe (Tachybaptus novaehollandiae) being uncharacteristically nonchalant.