Finally got some good photos of the whistling kite.  Hooray!

Among other things, we managed to catch photos (some better than others) of the following;

Chestnut Teal, Australasian Grebe, Hoary Headed Grebe, Little Pied Cormorant, Black Cormarant, Pelecans, White Faced heron, Australian White Ibis, Royal Spoonbill, Black Shouldered Kite, Whistling Kite, Spotted harrier, Swamp Harrier, Brown Falcon, Australian Spotted Crake (first time we'd actually seen this one), Purple Swamp Hen, Broad-billed Sandpiper, Pied Oyster Catcher, Red-necked Avocet, Red-capped Plover, Pacific Gull, Silver Gull, Crested Tern, Crested Pigeon, Supurb Fairy-wren, Siriated Fieldwren, Magpie-lark, Willie Wagtail, Australian Magpie, Little Raven, Zebra Finch, Welcome Swallow, Golden-headed Cisticola and Black Swans.

All up, that's not bad - 34 different breads on camera with a few unidentified.

Got some new species (well at least for us) this time round to the treatment plant.  The Musk Duck was a score for me as well as some great photos of the Australasian Darter.  If you look very closely at the rock, there's some freckled ducks in there. Pictured we also have an Egret, Brown Falcon and a White-Necked Heron.

The Pink-Eared Duck was plentiful (had also never seen them before either).  We caught a Cape Barren Goose sneaking in between some of the ponds but unfortuantly, we didn't see the Oranged Belied Parot or the Great Crested Greeb... we're also on the look out for the Australasian Bittern... Maybe next time.

Today was our first trip to the Western Treatment Plant.  My husband Rob joined last week so we have a permit and a key so despite the weather forcast, away we went.

33 Spieces we saw before the rain made it so bad we couldn't keep a single window open!  But still I managed to add a few spieces (with good photos) to my list.  New birds included the; Black Fronted Dotterel, Swamp Harrier, Hoary-headed Grebe, Horsefield's Bronze-Cuckoo, White-fronted Chat and the Golden-headed Cisticola.

One day I'll get a photo of the Crested Greebe or the Australian Bittern... but today wasn't that day so maybe next time.  If you have any helpful hints on how to find either of these two birds I'd love to hear it!