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| Marsh Sandpiper |
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| Soldier Crabs on the march ------ vacuum cleaners of the sand flats. |
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| Family of Plumed Whistling-Ducks |
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| Eastern Curlew --- long bill for penetrating the sand. |
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| Bar-tailed Godwit |
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| Masked Lapwing |
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| Believed to be a canoe tree ----- the top of the tree lost and the remaining trunk weathered white ----- long ago the bark would have been removed to build a canoe ---- timber rotted by weather leaving the distinct shape. |
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| Little Egret |
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| Diamond Python a sub-species of the more common Carpet Python ----- the markings are more diamond shape rather than the larger blotched pattern of our common python. Some references don"t distinguish between the species. This fellow was about 2 meters of the ground in a mangrove bush on the tidal flats ----- in the open at midday. |
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| Great Knot (showing early development of breeding plumage) |
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| Sulphur - crested Cockatoo ----- having a Sunday morning meeting with much flapping of wings and noise before they went on their individual ways |
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| Golden Orb Weaver (Female) ---- Males much smaller and brownish overall ----- one was on the edge of web out of camera shot ---- Web silk golden-yellow. |