Extensive planting has been carried out around the lake, providing good habitat for smaller birds like everybody’s favourite, the Superb Fairy-wren for example.

Female.

Male in eclipse plumage.

Male in breeding plumage.

Brown Thornbills enjoy the thick cover of the plantings, this one is carrying food for nestlings.

The Spotted Pardalote is a brilliant little bird.

The Spotted Pardalote commonly nests in a tunnel excavated in a bank, a low rise, or at the base of a fallen log for example, and can often be approached closely while it is working. This nest was being dug in the bank of Flooding Creek close to the lake.

The chicks of the pardalote would be safe in their tunnel nest from predation by the final bird in this post, the Little Raven. Not a bird many people would regard as attractive in appearance, but in its gleaming black livery it is a striking bird.

So ends this series on some of the birdlife of Lake Guyatt and Flooding Creek. A birdlist may be accessed here.

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The iconic Black Swan needs no further introduction.

As does the Australian Pelican.

The Australasian Darter is now a common wetland bird in the area, one is seen here drying its wings in the company of Chestnut Teal and a Great Cormorant.

Purple Swamphens are very much at home wandering about on the grassy areas.

This image shows the lobed toes of the Eurasian Coot, helpful for propulsion when the bird swims and dives under water for plant food.

A remnant fence post nearby in Flooding Creek provided a handy perch for this Azure Kingfisher.

To conclude this series of wetland birds of the lake and creek, some lovers of the muddy shallows.

The Australian Spotted Crake.

The Black-fronted Dotterel.

And the Red-kneed Dotterel.

Still to come, some of the birds for which the extensive lake-side planting has provided habitat.

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