After lunch that day, it was time to meet the rest of the tour group and take off on our first excursion. Our guides headed first towards a beach and creek area not far from Darwin. I didn't do very well with the distant birds in the glaring sun at this beach, but I did get quite a few lifers. I'll skip the Pacific Reef Heron, the Far-eastern Curlew, the Intermediate Egret, the Gull-billed Tern and some others I didn't get good shots of. This almost equally poor shot of a Red-capped Plover will have to represent that whole slew of distant, birds.
