Australia - Perth - Thomson's Nature Reserve - Seasonal Changes!

Thomson’s Lake is a key staging post for thousands of waterbirds but is dry by the end of the summer. A tractor was grubbing up the lake bed this morning as I was walking the inner circuit from the Russell Road entrance to the Lake. Present in the Eucalyptus were small flocks of Silvereye and Brown Honeyeater. Willie Wagtail took advantage of the insects that I had disturbed along the sandy path. 

The route to the lake took me past Copulup Lake where a male Musk Duck was one of a handful of ducks on the lake.

Pacific Black Duck made up the numbers.

Cormorants were also sparse on the lake with a couple of Little Black Cormorant sunbathing on a partially submerged branch.

A Little Pied Cormorant was a late entrant onto the total. 

What a difference a few months make!