We left Collins Road and headed to the Victoria Lake dam. There are two dams here, one old and one new. The old one has a huge section taken out of it and the two halves are still standing. We parked and saw a few birds up at the car park. Then we walked down to the picnic area by the old dam. There is a small stream running through this valley and we got lots of new birds here. Tim and I were having a good time talking birds and talking about teaching. Perhaps we should have been looking more as time seemed to have gotten the best of us. We hiked around the Victoria Lake dam but had to cut it short. We also chose to skip the last two places that Tim wanted to get to. By the time we drove back it was after 4 PM and had we tarried we would have had to sit through the Perth traffic..
Vital information for the visitor
New Holland Honeyeater
Lots of restrictions. No marroning, camping, fishing, boating, polluting, shooting, hunting, swimming, dogs, horses, trail bikes or off road driving
Western Yellow Robin LB#15
A gray faintail
The new dam
Fresh water
A young splendid fairyrobin
A splendid stretch of water
Looks like some hydroelectric generation or possibly filtration before sending it to Perth
This is our field of new birds
A White-Breaster Robin LB#16
And his date, the female
A Red-Eared Firetail LB#17
A Spotted Paradola LB#18
This fairywren kept getting closer and closer to us
So too did this gray shrikethrush
Eventually the fairywren was this close
One half of the old dam
The other half
There were two Red-Tailed Black Cockatoos playing in the trees
We watched them for a bit
This odd mix of animal. A bison's body with the horns of a Viking
Western Wattle Bird LB#19
Australian Shelduck LB#20
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A shy Spotted Scrubwren LB#21, just left of center
Echidna design on the signage
Heading back we spot a large animal
A kangaroo on the side of the road
He jumped over this fence in a single bound
In our neighborhood the houses are quintessential Australian
A Galah!
Here be dragons
Lyn and Leslie. Lyn is an accomplished photographer and is due to take the portraits of the Australian Supreme Court soon
