I was fortunate enough to get a good picture of one of the most magnificent water birds: the Australian Pelican (non-breeding).
Aside from the common Silver Gulls flocking the beach, there was a pair of...stilts/sandpipers/plovers. They were too far away and my camera couldn't capture them well, but here they are:
I'll bet them as a pair of non-breeding Banded Stilts, but they also look like plovers/sandpipers to me. (According to Birds Australia, they're Black-winged Stilts.)
Travelling slightly further inland from the mudflats, we passed a small creek of Black Swans, various ducks, a few egrets, and commorants! No pictures cause we didn't stop by, but from vague memory they look like a flock of Little Black Commorants, simply because they didn't appear to have any white markings and didn't look quite big enough to be Great Commorants. Apparently they 'fish cooperatively with Australian Pelicans'. I did not see the two species together, but having them both situated within the same vicinity is enough persuasion to label them as LBCs.
