Second week of October

There were more birders than birds today on my only visit to the lake this week. And they all seemed to be looking for the now all too familiar Freckled Ducks. But today it was different. The Freckled Ducks were extremely tame, feeding right beside the path within metres of the passing hordes. The picture below was taken with my iPhone.

A very tame (female?) Freckled Duck

A pair of Rainbow Bee-eater have set up shop at the sand mound, but there was no sign of the Red-capped Plovers seen a week earlier.

I'm off to Broome tomorrow, so won't be able to report until the fourth week of the month. I hope I don't miss anything too special while I'm away!