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ID Date Status Details
#16063 9 Feb 2024 Approved Notes:

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

#15958 13 Jan 2024 Approved
#15913 9 Dec 2023 Approved Notes:

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

#15837 11 Nov 2023 Approved Notes:

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

#15796 14 Oct 2023 Approved Notes:

Yellow faced cormorants, Crows, Silver gulls.

#15759 9 Sep 2023 Approved
#15697 12 Aug 2023 Approved
#15660 15 Jul 2023 Approved Notes:

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.

 

#15583 17 Jun 2023 Approved Notes:

Egrets (4), Grebe (1)

High tide seeing sea overflow berm preventing measurements of berm. 

 

Other samplers Eleanor Cowell, James Cowell and Jarred Obst .

 

#15523 13 May 2023 Approved Notes:

Ducks? Gulls, White faced heron, Pelican.

#15460 15 Apr 2023 Approved Notes:

stilts,swans, hooded plovers(lots)

#15345 11 Mar 2023 Approved Notes:

Ducks, White faced heron, Grebe, 6 Hoodies.

#15280 11 Feb 2023 Approved Notes:

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.

#15223 14 Jan 2023 Approved Notes:

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.

#15167 10 Dec 2022 Approved Notes:

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! 

#15071 5 Oct 2022 Approved Notes:

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

#15010 10 Sep 2022 Approved Notes:

Great data everyone - very large berm!

#14940 13 Aug 2022 Approved Notes:

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

 

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

#14876 9 Jul 2022 Approved
#14739 11 Jun 2022 Approved Notes:

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

 

 

Evidence of seawater inflows.

#14671 14 May 2022 Approved Notes:

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.

#14591 9 Apr 2022 Approved Notes:

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.

#14492 12 Feb 2022 Approved Notes:

Silver gull, Hooded plovers(nesting?)

#14400 11 Dec 2021 Approved
#14347 13 Nov 2021 Approved Notes:

clear beach, 2 swans

#14313 9 Oct 2021 Approved
#14283 11 Sep 2021 Approved Notes:

Red capped plovers (many), 

#14243 14 Aug 2021 Approved Notes:

2 Pacific gulls, Flock Ibis, Swallows

#14203 10 Jul 2021 Approved Notes:

Little Pied Cormorant.

#14162 12 Jun 2021 Approved Notes:

Red capped plovers, Swan, Double banded plovers, Pacific gull, Pied oyster catchers.

#14126 8 May 2021 Approved
#14122 10 Apr 2021 Approved Notes:

Silver gulls, Immature Pacific gull, Great Cormorant.

#14023 20 Mar 2021 Approved Notes:

greater cormorant

#13993 20 Feb 2021 Approved Notes:

Bird and other Observations: Hooded Plovers fenced off areas. 

3 Horse floats in car park.

#13940 9 Jan 2021 Approved
#13898 12 Dec 2020 Approved
#13838 14 Nov 2020 Approved
#13815 9 Oct 2020 Approved Notes:

Tom Sheehan called into site on way home after work on Friday the 9th October and took photos i will endeavour to load. No monitoring took place on Saturday. Photo point site unavailable.

#13748 11 Jul 2020 Approved Notes:

Pelican (1)

Cormorants black and pied (several)

Hooded plovers (lots)

Swans

#13724 20 Jun 2020 Approved Notes:

Tom Sheehan co-monitor.

Hooded Plovers, Swans.

Signs of sea inundation.

Estuary opened recently artificialy.

#13639 14 Mar 2020 Approved Notes:

Beach closed for hooded plover protection, no berm measurements taken.

 

pacific gull (juv)

swans...many

#13566 8 Feb 2020 Approved Notes:

Tom Sheahan part of monitoring group.

No Berm measurements due to nesting birds exclusion zone.

Birds observed: Hooded plovers

Swans-6

#13503 11 Jan 2020 Approved Notes:

Unable to access area to measure berm due to extent of river and berm - area fenced off to protect bird nesting areas.

#13452 14 Dec 2019 Approved Notes:

Tom Sheehan part of this monitoring session.

Note: AHD readings taken at breakwater.

Note 2: Photo of "notice of closure" of track to photo point.

#13406 9 Nov 2019 Approved Notes:

Tom Sheehan part of monitoring group.

Birds observed:65 chestnut teal, swan, silver gulls and hooded plovers (10-15)

#13399 12 Oct 2019 Approved Notes:

Tom Sheehan part of monitoring group.

Birds observed: Great Cormorant, silver gulls and pied oyster catcher.

#13320 14 Sep 2019 Approved Notes:

Tom Sheehan part of monitoring group.

High tide sea water flows into river estuary.

Natural opening during August-bank erosion.

River level cut off from photo point.

Good swell.

#13248 10 Aug 2019 Approved Notes:

Tom Sheehan, Eleanor Cowell and James Cowell part of monitoring team.

Birds observed. Hooded Plovers several, Pacific Gulls 2 adults 1 juvenile, Unidentified shorebirds in largish flock, Red Capped Plovers, Red Kneed Dotterels.

#13224 6 Jul 2019 Approved Notes:

Tom Sheehan part of monitoring group.

#13119 8 Jun 2019 Approved
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