This morning was the third BirdLife northern group excursion that Alanna and I have organised. This time we went down to Queechy Pond (only 10mins away from our place) to see if we could find the Nankeen Night Herons that reportedly breed in the area. Nankeen Night Herons are very uncommon in Tassie and are very cryptic, so everyone was keen to get a look at one. We were told that they roost in the willows in the middle of the pond so we set to scouring the willow branches. After a few minutes, we spotted our first and then our second and then our third. In the end we saw 7 adult Night Herons and one juvenile. We were all pretty stoked.
If you enlarge this photo and look carefully there are 5 Night Herons in this photo. Can you spot them all?
Once we had finished oooh-ing and aww-ing at the Night Herons, we were heading back to the car when we realised that the 3 Spoonbills that we had seen earlier weren't just the normal Spoonbills, but Royal Spoonbills which are extremely rare in Tassie.
Great Cormorant, Pied Cormorant, and 3 Royal Spoonbills
We had a brilliant birdwatching morning :)
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