Balranald, New South Wales, 24 to 25 July 2024.

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Leaving Mungo on our way to Canberra, we drove to the nearest town, which ia Balranald, and stayed overnight in the caravan park.  Arriving in early afternoon, we then headed to nearby Yanga Lake and Yanga Homestead in a corner of Yanga National Park.  I was particularly hoping to photograph local bird life.

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Lots of pelicans on the lake, some taking off.

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Another view of the pelicans on the lake.

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Spiny-cheeked honeyeater.

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A pelican flying through.  Pelicans and cormorants on branches above the lake.

(Note the flood line on the trees in the background).

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Another shot of a pelican.

It’s out of focus in the background.  I waited a while to see whether someone would turn up and offer me a lift somewhere on the tractor, but after some fractions of as second, I gave up.

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Red-rumped parrot.

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Red-rumped parrots, male above and female below.

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Yanga homestead.

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Willie Wagtail.

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… and he takes off …

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… here he comes…

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… and away he goes….

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Pelicans in the air.

There are also two dark birds, not sure what they are.  They appear to be behind the pelicans, large birds with long wings.  The ends of the wings suggest a raptor but they seem to me to be not the right shape to be a wedgetail eagle. 

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Pelicans in the air.

A dark bird again, probably the same as the previous image.  It looked to me like a goose, but I couldn’t find any Auustralia geese like that.

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Black swans.

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Corellas in the trees.

We are now back at our campground beside the Murrumbidgee River.

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Murrumbidgee River views.

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