It took about half an hour to get there from the house. We parked along the road that goes along the foreshore of the ocean here. From the road we saw lots of silver gulls and a white-faced heron on the large clumps of floating seaweed out to see. Closer examination revealed a few more herons, two Pacific gulls and an Australian pied oystercatcher. Walking left from the carpark, I spotted some black-winged stilts (actually, they are a seperate species from the black-winged stilt that should be called the white-headed stilt, but here in Australia, we just call them black-winged stilts) with a flock of silver gulls, as well as a single little egret.
Continuing on, I saw some little pied and little black cormorants, more silver gulls, a few superb fairy-wrens and hundreds of chestnut and grey teals. On the way back, I spotted a lifer singing honeyeater in a bottlebrush tree.
While returning, we also came across three pacific gulls within a flock of silver gulls. This is one of my dad's photos. The pacific gull is the largest bird in the image, with the big, yellowy bill. Notice how the tip of the pacific gull's bill is red on BOTH MANDIBLES- this distinguishes it from the similar but less common kelp gull.
All in all, this was a very nice trip and I would have returned again if not for the overpowering stench of seaweed.
P.S: The location is on Altona Beach, near the mouth of Laverton Creek, in Altona, Victoria, on the shores of the Port Phillip Bay
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