white-faced heron

White-faced Heron

White-faced Heron

Also on the other side of the river, but very much closer, was a rather handsome looking White-faced Heron. His legs seem very bright, so I'm guessing this is high breeding colours.

Finally arriving down at the hide, there was a row of White-faced Herons all dressing themselves in readiness for the day's activities.

After admiring the Pipit, June and I went and sat in the hide for a bit. As the birds were a bit distant I took a more general picture of a largish group out on a sandbar. Mainly I can pick out Australian Ibis, Great Crested Tern, Silver Gull, White-faced Heron. I also recorded Grey Plover...

The following morning found June and myself back in the hide before breakfast again. We saw an Ibis in front of one of the houses on our way down, but thought I'd show you one combined in a picture with a White-faced Heron, the first one I'd seen here so far; they seemed to be everywhere in...

Out on the mud was a Greenshank being chased by a White-faced Heron. I don't really know what that was all about. The was the first Greenshank I'd seen in Australia, but not a Lifer of course, as they do breed up here in Scotland. I guess he would be migrating back north soon.

Apologies for not having been around for a while. I've been creating a virtual concert for our folk club, with 39 songs and lasting over 2 hours, which has entailed a lot of work. And now Adrienne is home with her new hip and I'll be doing all the cooking, shopping and cleaning for the next...

Caught mid-preen!

Not far from where the egrets were, was a White Faced Heron, also standing on the rocks. These were on the far bank, I'll maybe have to show you an overall view of the place.

... here and there and everywhere! These, I guess are the most widespread of the Australian herons. At least I saw them just about everywhere I went where there was water, fresh and salt. Quite an attractive bird too with that white face.

We'd now made our way back to have a final look at the Homestead Dam. And there was this rather handsome White-faced Heron.

There seemed to be quite a varied lot of species in the Homestead dam for I found this White-faced Heron foraging round the reeds at the water's edge.

We got near to the end of the riverbank walk when I spotted this White-faced Heron on the other bank.

We finally managed to drag ourselves away and headed on towards the beach, but a White-faced Heron in a pool near the path deserved a picture I thought.

A long and exciting day for me today - off to Stradbroke Island. I do love islands. While we were waiting for the ferry, I could see something moving on an exposed mud bank so took a picture in the hopes that I could see what it was. It turned out, not unexpectedly, to be a white-faced...

A bit distant this heron but Ken pointed him out on the flats. He was very close to where I'd walked out but I swear he wasn't there at that time!

Oh my! Where has the day gone :eek!: Well, I guess I know the answer to that one - gone to working on a lecture and making dinner. Oh well. Time well spent. But now that dinner's in the oven, I'll get three images posted, then do my browsing when we've eaten. Coming back up from the cormorant...