Showing posts with label barrages. Show all posts
Showing posts with label barrages. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Wild Bird Wednesday - Hooray for Big Birds!


Nipped down to Goolwa for the day and spied these below the 
barrages on the Murray River.

Three pelicans pole sitting
our pelicans are really big birds up to 1.9m
since that is bigger than me,  even I can see them


getting into the swing of things
this White-faced Heron
also a bird of some stature that looks deceptively small at a
distance but can be up to 1m
I have stood next to one that was higher than my waist


put them all together and it looks like a dwarf next to 
the big pelicans


Stewart, any hope of an ID for the waders in the background?
I know they are not very clear,
unfortunately, due to a senior's moment, I had drained the 
battery on my canon with the 500mm lens


No idea what kind of ducks they are either.

With thanks to Stewart for hosting


Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Watery Wednesday ~ Barrages at Goolwa


The glassy Murray River water banked up above the barrages


noisily rushing through


providing splendid fishing grounds for this Australian darter,
Anhinga novaehollandiae.


Now you see him


now you don't.



All photos enlarge.

Thanks to 2sweetnsaxy we can all join in to this meme and
get our feet wet.

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