Tag: water birds

As we approached the Goolwa Barrage, I noticed an unlucky cormorant.

Courtesy of a careless human, the pictured bird probably had a very short future.

Variously, resolutely calm or alarmed: many cormorants.

Cucumber-cool: one silver gull, one pelican.

For any photographer, attempting to “capture” a bird in flight is always a challenge.

More often than not, one does not succeed.

One is grateful that digital images can be inspected, instantly and deleted, often.

Sometimes, one “captures” something additional to what one had intended…

A wider view reveals what the Coorong’s north lagoon looks like in “boom time”..and a future post’s even-wider view will really show just how prodigiously abundant was birdlife in autumn 2024.

(Photo ©️ Doug Spencer, taken at 12.55 pm on 13 March 2024 – less than one minute after the previous post’s featured image)

The Coorong has long been a very dynamic ecosystem – and a fragile one.

Three months after we witnessed such abundance in the north lagoon, the Coorong’s south lagoon suffered a huge fish kill; an estimated 200 stinking tonnes of dead fish were rotting.

Locals said it was the largest such event in more than forty years.