I explored a new area last week. The Kororiot Creek mouth opens out into Port Phillip Bay in Williamstown next to the Jawbone reserve. To access the area you need to park at either the sports ground or next to one of the many fishing club shacks that line the Creek mouth on one side. As the nearby areas gentrify this part is fighting to stay the way it has always been – a working class fishing area/village. On the opposite side is a bank of salt marsh vegetation while on the village side it is Banksia trees and attempts at regeneration of creek side flora including White Mangroves. It is a remnant of the tidal wetland that ran right across this coastal area.
Further up the creek is the Mobile Oil Refinery Storage tanks. Considering the local birdlife including many migratory waders, it is surprising that such heavy can co-exist successfully with the wetland.
Great Egret
Welcome Swallow
Little Black Cormorants – I watched these Cormorants hunt as a pack. There were 6 in the group working closely together.
Black Swan P81 – I reported the swan through the myswan link . See Jawbone link above for more details on tagged swan research.
Pelican
Pelican II
New Holland Honeyeater
Little Pied Cormorant
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