Wednesday 6 April 2022

 At 2:23 this afternoon Black Swan BKC (right leg) was clearly identified in the lagoon Bay at JKMP. This bird moved off the beach from near the waterfall and came along the shoreline feeding. A few minutes later I was able to confirm that a Black Swan was sitting on the nest to the N and about 20 minutes later I saw two Black Swans swimming slowly S along the eastern shoreline of the E arm of the lake and S of the bridge. I could not identify them as colour banded swans because they never came in close enough to observe. 

Black Swan on nest this afternoon


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