An evening at the WTP

With the hot weather just making day trips so hard for photography, hard on the birds, hard on the photographer and hard on great images, we’ve been a bit subdued of late.

A small dry cool change wafted through and we took the chance to go back out on the Murtcain(m) to see if we could sight those elusive Brolgas.

The evening light played such a fine tune over the scene, and the breeze from the ocean was really refreshing. The birds seem to enjoy it too.

Black-shouldered Kite on a high vantage point.

Juvenile Black-shouldered Kite, with its wonderful brown ginger markings.

Yellow-billed Spoonbills settling in for an evening meal.

Swamp Harrier, all a bustle as it turns its body to keep up with the intended target

Royal Spoonbill who stopped in the middle of a preen for a bit of a dance in the water.

Not to be outdone, a Yellow-billed Spoonbill perfuming in the water. Perhaps the cool breeze gave them pleasure too.

Oh, so elusive Brolga. Late evening stroll.

Black-shouldered Kite hunting right on sundown. It lifts its head to be sure there is no sneak attacks. — Black-shouldered Kite hunting right on sundown. It lifts its head to be sure there is no sneak attack.

2 thoughts on “An evening at the WTP”

Another lovely potpourri of pix! All wonderful in their own right but I particularly like the last one of the Kite – and the comment 🙂

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David Jenkins says:

February 6, 2014 at 6:12 am

Hi Christine, I’ve set my editorial policy to be more pictures and less story. Unless of course a good story comes swinging by !!!

Regards
David
I like that shot of the Black-shouldered Kite, I love to see them concentrate so hard on the ground, and then. Oh, better check the coast is clear.

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