Follow this link to:
Saltmarsh retreat zone (front page of Mangrove Cove Monitoring web site)
Mangrove expansion photopoints
3 Dec 2008 |
28 July 2010 |
9 Sept 2010 |
1 Nov 2010 |
22 Dec 2010 |
19 Jan 2011 |
2 Mar 2011 |
15 Jun 2011 | 25 July 2011 |
26 Sept 2011 |
14 Nov 2011
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27/Jan 2012 |
13 Apr 2012 |
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Australian pelicans
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2 |
3 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
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Australian white ibis |
2 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
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Blackbird |
1 |
1 |
1 |
abundant |
2 |
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Chestnut teal |
2 |
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Crested tern |
2 |
1 |
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Crow |
1 |
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Fairy martin |
2 |
2 |
2 |
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Feral pigeon |
1 |
1 |
abundant |
5 |
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Grey teal |
8 |
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Little egret |
1 |
1 |
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Little black cormorant (60-65cm) |
1 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
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Little pied cormorant (55cm) |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
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Magpie |
2 |
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Masked lapwing (spur-winged plover) |
1 |
2 |
1 |
6 |
1 |
1 |
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New Holland honeyeater |
2 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
4 |
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Pied cormorant (70-75cm) |
abundant |
2 |
1 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
7 |
1 |
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Piping shrike (magpie-lark, mudlark, peewee) |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
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Sandpiper |
1 |
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Red capped plover |
2 |
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Red wattlebird |
1 |
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Sacred kingfisher |
1 |
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Silver gull |
abundant |
6 |
5 |
10 |
abundant |
abundant |
abundant |
2 |
3 |
abundant |
abundant |
abundant |
abundant |
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Singing honeyeater |
1 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
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Sooty oystercatcher |
3 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
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Sparrow |
2 |
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Spotted turtle-dove |
3 |
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Starling |
2 |
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Topknot pigeon |
2 |
2 |
1 |
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Welcome swallow |
1 |
2 |
5 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
1 |
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Whiskered tern (marsh tern) |
1 |
1 |
2 |
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White faced heron |
1 |
1 |
1 |
Comments
9 Sept 2010: Cabbage white butterflies active
1 Nov 2010: Many moon jellies at the marina
22 Dec 2010:Cabbage white butterflies active
19 Jan 2011: Many moon jellies at the marina
3 Mar 2011: A few moon jellies at the marina
15 June 2011: High tide so few shorebirds, 2 classes of students and a maintenance crew were working on the site
25 July 2011: High tide, no mud flat exposed so few birds
27 Jan 2012: Tide very low, ducks, oystercatcher and ibis probing for invertebrates. Heavy honey scent from flowering Avicennia marina, Myoporum parvifolium and Melaleuca lanceolata. Heavy crops of ripe fruit on Enchylaena tomentosa
!3 April 2012: Enchylaena tomentosa still carrying abundant fruit
Follow this link to:
Saltmarsh retreat zone (front page of Mangrove Cove Monitoring web site)
Mangrove expansion photopoints