It’s great to see the Eagleby Wetlands full of water again after so many months of drought earlier this year and late last year (a drought in our wet season? yes, it does happen)
Part of Eagleby Wetlands looking like Drylands last November
And now the tea trees are flowering we’re also getting nectar-feeding birds (including the beautiful little scarlet honeyeater) and insectivorous birds coming in after nectar-feeding insects.
Here are a few recent photos
Flocks of pelicans have returned, along with stilts, black swans, dotterells and others: this lagoon was never as dry as the one above, but it did diminish considerablyok, nothing unusual about seeing white ibis near Brisbane, but they do look rather nice flying in a flock
Red-browed finches in a sheoakbrown honeyeater visiting tea tree (Melaleuca) flowersA rufous whistler seeking insects from foliage and barkA whistling kite soaring over the wetland
Two little brown birds: golden-headed cisticola (right) and female of one of the blue fairy-wrens (superb or variegated: the males are easily distinguished but not the females). I don’t think either of these deserted during the droughtRoyal spoonbills and two species of ibis rst in a tree by a lagoon
