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McGowangrad, winter ‘22: #7 in series (heron on river flats)

 

Perchance, on any particular day, a Perth resident wished to see a pelican, a parrot/cockatoo, and a heron…

… s/he would almost invariably find it very easy to make that wish come true, somewhere within a few kilometres of home, in whatever suburb.

This post’s featured photo was taken on the metro area’s largest (Swan) river flats, a little less than 10 kilometres inland/upriver from Perth’s GPO.

I’ve many times seen herons (and pelicans, and two of the world’s rarest cockatoo species) in various places well within a 3k radius of the GPO.

This post’s White-faced heron was photographed at 2.43 pm on 08 July 2022.

(photo is copyright Doug Spencer. The location – Ashfield Flats – will be the subject of its own multi-image post, anon)

Egretta novaehollandiae – the White-faced heron – is Australasia’s most ubiquitous, most highly adaptable, most oft-encountered heron species.

Published in nature and travel photographs Western Australia