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Point Cook Coastal Park, Point Cook Victoria

Parks Victoria manages Point Cook Coastal Park http://parkweb.vic.gov.au/explore/parks/point-cook-coastal-park as well as the adjacent Point Cooke Marine Sanctuary http://parkweb.vic.gov.au/explore/parks/point-cooke-marine-sanctuary . Interesting variation in the spelling of Cook / Cooke. Both parks are being progressively approached by spreading suburbia. That applies to many places, but it is rather noticeable here. The contrast between broad open grassy paddocks of the past  and masses of new houses in the present is very obvious in such a flat place. It would be nice if there was a large buffer area between the houses and the park. 
Different groups of BirdLife Australia members visit the park regularly.
The above photo shows Pacific Gulls and Little Pied Cormorants resting on an old wooden structure above the water, close to the shore. Jan 2016.


23 January 2016

The photos below were taken on a BirdLife Melbourne beginners outing planned and led by Alan and Hazel. A report of the outing is on the BirdLife Melbourne Blog

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Pied Cormorant flying low

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Black Swans in close formation

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Chestnut Teal in flight

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Crested Terns and a Common Tern

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Young Crested Tern sharing a rock with a number of marine gastropods, possibly top shells (Family Trochidae) Austrocochlea species

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Common Greenshank and Silver Gull

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Pacific Gull

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Crested Pigeon
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Singing Honeyeater

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Brown Quail. This bird was seen soon before the start of the outing. Some people who arrived earlier saw 11 Brown Quail. I only saw this one. I was lucky it came out from hiding (almost) for long enough for me to take a photo.


Of all the birds pictured above (discounting the header photo), only the Singing Honeyeater is facing to the left. How strange. This was not intentional on my part.

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