EstuaryWatch Data Portal

Pelicans and lots of ducks

Birds present at site

Black Swans

Pacific black ducks

Little grebes

Pies Comorants

Measurements underataken by J.Obst as volunteers busy with SW TAFE students on weekend monitoring.

Great work braving the weather everyone - looks pretty rough out there..!  Jarred.

Wow - massive berm at present!!! Jarred.O

Yellow faced cormorants, Crows, Silver gulls.

Hooded Plover, Red cap plover, Ruddy turnstones, Little egret, Double banded plover.

Eleanor Cowell and James Cowell samplers.

Thanks again.  Great photos - and yes a very big sandbar remains, with little chance of a natural estuary opening under current conditions... Thanks Jarred.

Egrets (4), Grebe (1)

High tide seeing sea overflow berm preventing measurements of berm. 

Other samplers Eleanor Cowell, James Cowell and Jarred Obst .

Ducks? Gulls, White faced heron, Pelican.

stilts,swans, hooded plovers(lots)

Ducks, White faced heron, Grebe, 6 Hoodies.

Hooded plovers ? 50, Red capped plovers, Silver gulls.

Jarred - that's some awesome Hoody numbers!!  Also a very large berm following the massive 8m swell at the start of the month.  Cheers.

Took out Sth African Beach Daisy

J.Obst - nice work on the weed removal; a lot of this around unfortunately.  Very interesting photos too which show the old flow channel vs the impact of weed invasion on the undisturbed or 'old' part of the sand bar.

Dead juvenile jellyfish? at waters edge, Masked Lapwings, Red Capped Plovers 2.

Jarred - cracking weather & great photos.  The jellyfish you've noted are commonly known as 'By the wind Sailors'.  We've seen huge numbers turned up as discussed at lunch afterwards.  Thanks! 

Beach berm measured by Jarred Obst using RTK GPS unit as part of ARMO consideration monitoring.

Great data everyone - very large berm!

Pacific black duck, Musk ducks, Egret, Grey heron, Silver gulls, Masked lapwings.

Estuary water level added by J.Obst; observation from 5/8/22.

Pied oyster catcher, Silver gulls, Pacific black ducks,.

Evidence of seawater inflows.

Silver gull, Swans, Australian grebes, Musk ducks.

Hi everyone.  Fantastic images of the storm front, and yes wow what a massive beach berm/sand bar at present; one of the largest & highest i've seen in some time I think.   The power of the souther ocean and onshore winds!  Thanks Jarred.

Brown falcon, Masked lapwing, Silver gulls, Pacific black duck.

Thanks guys, and yes what a massive berm present...  Very early days, but given this berm is already over 2m in height, I envisage that we'll need to open the system later in the season once rainfall hopefully arrives.  Thanks Jarred.

Silver gull, Hooded plovers(nesting?)