When you travel more than 1000km in a day you don't get a lot of time for photography, but we did manage one stop, for lunch, on the way home and I managed to get a few photos even though I only had 15 minutes.
The Australasian Purple Swamphen in the photograph above was photographed a couple of days earlier and is included here simply because I did not have time to to it while staying in Maroochydore.
We stopped at Guyra on the way home and had lumch at the Mother of Ducks Lagoon (which is no longer a lagoon but a paddock with a few drains and creeks along the edge. I saw a little brown fluff-ball running along on turbo-charged legs and managed to get one shot of it before it hid among the reeds. it was a Buff-banded Rail. They are hard to photograph at the best of times, so getting any sort of shot is always a bit of good luck.
A young Dusky Moorhen poked out from the rough for a short while. I was glad to get a good photograph because it shows clearly the dull beak colour of the immature bird. This picture also give an idea of the size of their feet. Dusk Moorhens swim quite well as do the Swamphens, even though their feet are not webbed.
A Little Pied Cormorant occupied a post the whole time we were in the area, seemingly unperturbed by my presence. They always have an air of cute mischievousness about them that makes them quite photogenic.
There were other birds around but I did not have the time to pursue them as we had to get home by nightfall.
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