Plumed Whistling Ducks follow the water

I have posted from time to time about the appearance of Plumed Whistling Ducks (PWD) on a dam beside Trucking Yard Lane on the outskirts of Bungendore.  That dam is now very close to dry and the PWD haven't been seen there for a while.  However 12 of them have appeared at the Bungendore Sewage Works over the last few days.

Some of them are shown above together with

• Pacific Black Duck
• Grey Teal
• Hardhead 
• Australian Wood Duck and 
• Australasian Shoveler

The PWD are at the point labelled 2 in this snip of the poo pits from Google Earth and are visible from the road.  (Be careful: the road is very busy with funsters coming back from the coast.)

If you go into the area labelled 1 you get a good view of the pond closest to Bungendore which was decorated with Pink-eared Ducks and Australian White Ibis (as well as several of the species named above).  (Of course, be careful not to impede the trucks for which this area was constructed.)

For more waterfowl, try the Queanbeyan Sewage Works.