I took a brief diversion to the Western Lagoons at the Western Treatment Plant on the way home from Melbourne this afternoon. Despite it being mid afternoon, there was a fair amount of avian activity with hundreds of Red-necked Stints and Curlew Sandpipers resting on the mudflats and feeding in the shallows.
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| Curlew Sandpiper, Western Treatment Plant |
Several pairs of White-fronted Chats were feeding on the dried mudflats at the edge of the ponds.
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| White-fronted Chat, Western Treatment Plant |
...and, I was lucky enough to capture this Golden-headed Cisticola singing in the nearby vegetation.
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| Golden-headed Cisticola, Western Treatment Plant |
As I was leaving, I flushed a Buff-banded Rail in the ditch just next to Gate 2. I parked the car past the gate and came back and waited to see if it would reappear...
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| Buff-banded Rail, Western Treatment Plant |
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