Kalangadoo - Mount Gambier - Piccaninnie Ponds (SA) - Casterton (VIC) - Point Danger
In an Eggshell:
Big Zigzag bird species count: 590 (+2 this week) Big Zigzag bird families count: 90 (+0 this week) Big Zigzag Lifers: 150 (+1 this week: Australasian Bittern) Campsite Lifers 30 (+0 this week) Big Zigzag New for Australia list: 207 (+2 this week), AU list now 632. eBird AU year list: 446 eBird days of checklist streak: 460 Week’s special milestones: Big Zigzag Lifer #150!
Bird(s) of the Week
Finally got the boogey bird! Australasian Bittern (Botaurus poiciloptilus), Piccaninnie Ponds Conservation Park. Seen for 3 days in a raw, always for a short time after flashed from the reeds.
Long staying South African guest at Point Danger: Cape Gannet among hundreds of Australasian Gannets (the pale irised one, long dark gular striped, and paler head).