EstuaryWatch Data Portal

Pacific black duck, purple swamp hen, swallows, chestnut teal.

Kerrie Robertson part of team.

Thanks for the testing!  Interesting DO and turbidity results; high readings suggests a algal bloom happening!

Thanks

Jarred

Australasian grebes, Moor hens, Greater cormorants, Black faced cormorant, Australasian coot, Pacific black duck & Purple swamp hens.

Royal spoonbill (2), grebe, pacific black ducks, dusky moorhen, new holland honey eaters, little pied cormorant, greater egret.

Pied cormorants, australasian grebe, moorhens, australasian coots, purple swamp hens, great cormorant.

Great results - highly oxygenated and well mixed - just need some more rain and flow!  Excellent bird observations again too.  Thanks Jarred.

Birds present at site

Australian coots

Masked lapwings

pacific black ducks

little black cormorants

pied cormorants

Australian grebes 

moorhens

*With new sampler difficulty turbidity at bottom may be increased.

Birds present at site

Pacific black duck

Little pied cormarant

Dusky moorhen

Chestnut Teal

Coots

There were two men fishing off the pontoon using rope with big hooks, dragging lots of items from the bottom of the river bed.  

Thanks for the report; very strange, and nothing that i've seen before.  I have seen people searching for old bottles, but not scrap metal.  

purple swamphen, hooded lapwing, pacific black duck, little grobe

Possible dissolved oxygen issue with YSI meter.  Please check

Thanks guys - D.O. readings are high, but quite likely correct due to algae presence producing excess oxygen.  This is quite typical at this time of year due to extended sunlight and warming summer conditons.  Thanks for noticing the high level though - Jarred.

Pacific black ducks, Cormorants (black faced), Large black cormorants (black faced),

Purple swamp hens, Swallows.

ph meter failed to calibrate

Great results, highly oxygenated and looking good!  Thanks Jarred.

Pacific black duck, Chestnut teal, Purple swamphens, Moorhen-dusky.

Eleanor Cowell and James Cowell samplers.

Great Egret, Little Pied Cormorant, Pacific Black Duck, Purple Swamp hens, Moorhens, Chestnut teal.

Unable to include other samplers as their names seem to have been deleted from list.

Eleanor Cowell, James Cowell and Jarred Obst

Egret, Coots, Little pied cormorants.

Great results - all very fresh and highly oxygenated which is great to see!

Moorhens, Swallows, Magpie larks, Dusty coots, Little black cormorants.

Pacific black duck, Purple swamp hen, Magpie lark.

Jarred - great results as well.  Looks like a freshwater bloom happening up at Fonterra as well, with D.O.s very high!!

Pacific black ducks

D.O. data not recorded calibration failed

Dusky Moorhen, Reed Warblers, Pacific Black Ducks.

Jarred - thanks everyone.  Interesting to see the DO's in the upper water levels are on the rise - most likely being driven by warmer surface water driving algae growth, typical of the summer season.

Thanks again Gary & Rachel.  Very fresh and turbid profile!  

As flagged Gary, we're currently looking at artificial opening at the Cutting so this information, particularly a consistent D.O. profile at or above 5mg/L, is really important to support such decision.  

Regards Jarred. 

Water level high.  Stairs were cut off.  Had to enter pontoon on ramp.

Water was brown and murky.

Pacific black ducks, Dusky moorhens, Swallows.

Egret, Pacific black duck (2)

Great readings everyone - very consistent and dominated by winter freshwater following recent wet weather.  Thanks Jarred.

Australian grebes, Moorhens, Little pied cormorant, White ibis.

Great data also.  Like the lower estuary site, June rainfall has increased streamflow and created a highly oxygenated freshwater profile.  Temps are dropping too!!  Great work, thanks.  Jarred O.

Dusky moorhen, Pacific black duck, Chestnut teal, Little pied cormorant., 

Hi everyone, great data set once again & looks like some late season algal blooms have been persisting - shown by the high DO readings.  Typical of the Merri however, as Nitrate and Phosphurus levels are generally elevated in the catchment.  Thanks.

Little pied cormorant, Moorhen, Pacific black duck.

Thanks again guys, really good results.  Some interesting D.O. readings (high), but quite expected due to on-going dry and warm weather.  Basically indicates some additional oxygen producing activity occurring, which most likely is algal growth/bloom.  Thanks Jarred.

This observation carried out by Karen Wales and students from SWTAFE.

DO % sat not recorded.

Phosphorus 0.1

Pacific black duck, Moorhens.

Pacific black duck, Pair plovers, Moor hen, Reed warbler, Masked lap wing.

Reed warblers, Dusky moorhens.

Dusky moorhen, Greater cormorant, Chestnut teal.

Little Black Cormorants, Little Pied Cormorants, Pacific Black Duck, Chestnut Teal, Moor Hens with young.

Black faced cormorant, Masked lapwing, Pacific black duck, Purple swamphens, Dusky moorhens, Australasian coots, Greater cormorant, Little black cormorants.

Fantastic bird observations! J.Obst

Littel Black Cormorants, Moorhens, Pacific Black Duck, Little Pied Cormorants.

Great Cormorants, Pacific Black Duck, Moorhens, Masked Lapwings, Egret.

Moorhens, Pacific black duck,Chestnut teal, Masked lapwing, Little pied cormorant.

Fishing @ pontoon.

We were confronted with different measuring mode on probe. Tds instead of ppt and micro siemens instead of mille siemens/cm. I have entered data shifting decimal point to reflect required readings.  (No worries, thanks; J.Obst).  

Water clear.

Birds.  Moor hens, read warbler, great egret, pacific black duck, little black cormorant.

Moorhens

Pacific Black Duck

Swamp hen purple ,Pacific black duck, Chestnut teal,Welcome Swallow, Reed warblers.

Bird observations at site:

Little pied cormorants

dusky moorhens

Australasian grebe

Masked lapwing

Pacific black ducks

Flock of little black cormorants, coots

pacific black duck...many.                little pied cormorant...6-8

masked lapwing...2                          dusky moorhens...2

little black cormorant...6-8               magpie larks...2

chestnut teal...many.                       great egret...1

Tom Sheahan part of monitoring group.

Birds observed: Dusky Moorhens_4/5

Little black cormorants-2

Pacific black ducks-10/12

Chestnut teal-pair.