Walking to the car from shooting the sandpiper and Snipe I had to give the right of way to a nice sized Tiger Snake with a belly full of frogs. I often see snakes here at the WTP in summer. Not seen one this yellow before.
#tigersnake #WTP #westerntreatmentplant #ausSnakes #wetlands

Latham's Snipe gate crashing my Pectoral Sandpiper shot.
#Westerntreatmentplant #WTP #poohfarm #ausBirds #LathamsSnipe #PectoralSandpiper #wetlands

Wed I spent the day out at the Western Treatment Plant (aka Pooh Farm). While photographing a Pectoral Sandpiper, a Latham's Snipe popped out of the low salt bush and fed right in front of me. After several mins, it wandered into the scrub behind and vanished.
#WTP #LathamsSnipe #AusBirds #wetlands

Latest migrating visitor to the Yalukit Willam Nature Reserve: a female Flame Robin. A perching ambush hunter, she uses posts, fences and branches to spot her insect prey on the ground.
#flamerobin #ausbirds #YalukitWillamreserve #wetlands #australia

An immature Black-shouldered Kite. Adults are pure white with grey upper and black shoulders. No threat to the ducks below preferring mice and insects. Ready for the evening hunt it stretched then waggled, rising on the breeze.
#black-shoulderedKite #AUSbirds #YalukitWillamReserve #raptors #wetlands

One of the many Rainbow Lorikeets attacking a Flame Tree in my backyard. I had Lorikeets, Cockatoos and Corellas feeding on the flower buds, the nectar and the large seed pods of the tree doing the day with Fruit Bats/flying foxes taking the night shift.

Brown Falcon with captured Tiger snake. Western Treatment Plant, Werribee, Vic.
#raptors #Brownfalcon #tigersnake #westerntreatmentplant #ausbirds

A curious Juvenile Black-shouldered Kite on a road marker, Western Treatment Plant, Werribee.
#Blackshoulderedkite #AustralianBirds #birdphotography #wetlands #raptors

The resident Baillon's Crake at the Frog Pond in Yalukit William Nature Reserve. There are now between 3-5 of these tiny birds at the local reserve.
#BaillonsCrake #Australianbirds #waterbirds #wetlands

Tawny Frogmouth family, Braeside Park.

A Baillon's Crake on the edge of the Growling Grass Frog Pond at the Yalukit William Nature Reserve.

Buff Banded Rail at the local nature reserve