The next bird we saw that I took picture of is a black-backed radjah shelduck. As they were near the netting fence, I was able to get some decent photos on my ghastly camera - that distorts long shot topics.
In the above, you can see that along with multiple other species - including city pigeon and mallard - this bird has shining colors in the darker patches.
We arrived at the waterfall area and spotted some happily diving black necked grebes.
I got a photo of the sign first, as they kept diving out of camera shot and I wanted to make sure I knew what the splodges were if they came out fuzzy.
As we approached the open air 'hide', we spotted a sign. Oh dear - seems my trumpeter pals are going to be removed from their nice lake with island and tree and dumped in a smaller enclosure - (again - they tried that before) - soon!
We got to the open-air hide.
OOH! A nuthatch awaited us! In fact, it stayed in the exact same position for so long, we were wondering if it were all right - maybe it had caught a claw on the feeder and was stuck?
It stood there, looking at the ground below ignoring us and all else it would seem. Eventually, it did move though, so it must have been sunbathing or something - as they do not usually hang around. It is usually 'in, feed, leave'...
