Cooks River – Birds and Bottles – 3 January 2014

I went down to the Cooks River to see what the king high tide would be like. The water level was very high indeed – and over the banks in places.

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I took my camera along a took a few photos of the river, but I was concentrating on the birds. I went to the Boat Harbour, where there always seem to be plant of birds, and sure enough there were lots of gulls, ducks and cormorants. No pelicans this time.

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I also visited the nearby Cup and Saucer Creek wetland. This small gem is hidden away, tucked in at the confluence of Cup and Saucer Creek and the Cooks River. It is designed to help purify the water from the creek. The flow is diverted into the pools of the wetland, allowed to stay for a while and then flows back out.

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At the time of my visit there were lots of birds in the wetland – particularly ducks and ibis.

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Its a pleasant place to relax with the camera on the ready and wait for good shots.

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What is not good however, were the multitude of plastic bottle and other rubbish, flotsam and jetsam, in the Cooks River. Sad! A disgrace!

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One Response to Cooks River – Birds and Bottles – 3 January 2014

  1. Bonita Ely says:

    Great bird photography. Beautiful. Several times I’ve cleared a few (plastic) garbage bags full of plastic rubbish from the mangroves next to the golf course & the next day it’s as bad. Forget the Tosser ads’ emphasis on shaming litterers & fines – explain what’s going on environmentally. The plastic, toxic pollution of water internationally may be as big a problem as global warming.

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