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Wedge tailed eagle, pelican, swans, pied oyster catchers, pacific black duck, hooded plovers 16-20.

Possible lathams snipe or stilts x 3.

Hooded plover, coots, ducks, white necked heron.

Kerrie Robertson part of team

Weather too wild and wet to take berm measurements. Looked similar to last month.

All good - no worries at all!  Massive berm at present, thanks for letting me know, Jarred.

Chestnut teal, Whistling kite, Brown falcon.

Wallaby foot prints.

Greater cormorants, swans, hoary headed grebes.

Pelicans (many), pied cormorants, swans, silver gulls, masked lapwings, pacific black duck, chestnut teal, raft of grebes (hoary hooded) many more than 100, little egrets, royal spoonbills.

Birds present at site

Pelicans

Black swans

Greater cormorant 

unidentified ducks and grebes

Pelicans and lots of ducks

Birds present at site

Black Swans

Pacific black ducks

Little grebes

Pied Comorants

Measurements underataken by J.Obst as volunteers busy with SW TAFE students on weekend monitoring.

Great work braving the weather everyone - looks pretty rough out there..!  Jarred.

Wow - massive berm at present!!! Jarred.O

Yellow faced cormorants, Crows, Silver gulls.

Hooded Plover, Red cap plover, Ruddy turnstones, Little egret, Double banded plover.

Eleanor Cowell and James Cowell samplers.

Thanks again.  Great photos - and yes a very big sandbar remains, with little chance of a natural estuary opening under current conditions... Thanks Jarred.

Egrets (4), Grebe (1)

High tide seeing sea overflow berm preventing measurements of berm. 

Other samplers Eleanor Cowell, James Cowell and Jarred Obst .

Ducks? Gulls, White faced heron, Pelican.

stilts,swans, hooded plovers(lots)

Ducks, White faced heron, Grebe, 6 Hoodies.

Hooded plovers ? 50, Red capped plovers, Silver gulls.

Jarred - that's some awesome Hoody numbers!!  Also a very large berm following the massive 8m swell at the start of the month.  Cheers.

Took out Sth African Beach Daisy

J.Obst - nice work on the weed removal; a lot of this around unfortunately.  Very interesting photos too which show the old flow channel vs the impact of weed invasion on the undisturbed or 'old' part of the sand bar.

Dead juvenile jellyfish? at waters edge, Masked Lapwings, Red Capped Plovers 2.

Jarred - cracking weather & great photos.  The jellyfish you've noted are commonly known as 'By the wind Sailors'.  We've seen huge numbers turned up as discussed at lunch afterwards.  Thanks! 

Beach berm measured by Jarred Obst using RTK GPS unit as part of ARMO consideration monitoring.

Great data everyone - very large berm!

Pacific black duck, Musk ducks, Egret, Grey heron, Silver gulls, Masked lapwings.

Estuary water level added by J.Obst; observation from 5/8/22.

Pied oyster catcher, Silver gulls, Pacific black ducks,.

Evidence of seawater inflows.

Silver gull, Swans, Australian grebes, Musk ducks.

Hi everyone.  Fantastic images of the storm front, and yes wow what a massive beach berm/sand bar at present; one of the largest & highest i've seen in some time I think.   The power of the souther ocean and onshore winds!  Thanks Jarred.

Brown falcon, Masked lapwing, Silver gulls, Pacific black duck.

Thanks guys, and yes what a massive berm present...  Very early days, but given this berm is already over 2m in height, I envisage that we'll need to open the system later in the season once rainfall hopefully arrives.  Thanks Jarred.

Silver gull, Hooded plovers(nesting?)

clear beach, 2 swans

Red capped plovers (many), 

2 Pacific gulls, Flock Ibis, Swallows

Little Pied Cormorant.

Red capped plovers, Swan, Double banded plovers, Pacific gull, Pied oyster catchers.

Silver gulls, Immature Pacific gull, Great Cormorant.

greater cormorant

Bird and other Observations: Hooded Plovers fenced off areas. 

3 Horse floats in car park.

Tom Sheehan called into site on way home after work on Friday the 9th October and took photos i will endeavour to load. No monitoring took place on Saturday. Photo point site unavailable.

Pelican (1)

Cormorants black and pied (several)

Hooded plovers (lots)

Swans

Tom Sheehan co-monitor.

Hooded Plovers, Swans.

Signs of sea inundation.

Estuary opened recently artificialy.

Beach closed for hooded plover protection, no berm measurements taken.

pacific gull (juv)

swans...many