Campout 2007: Parnka and Meningie

The gales of the weekend had not abated when the remaining campers set out for Jack's Point and Parnka. Thousands of water birds flocked on the sandbars at Parnka.

Waders on Parnka sandbar Waders on Parnka sandbar lift off

Black-winged Stilt wheeled above and rested in the shallows ...

Black-winged Stilt

... while thousands of Whiskered Terns flapped overhead.

Whiskered Tern feeding frenzy Whiskered Tern

Back on the lake at Meningie, numbers of Great Crested Grebe bounced and dived among the waves whipped up by strong winds. The Pelican chose terra firma ...

Great Crested Grebe Pelican

and an unidentified raptor found the fence a precarious perch.

Wind-ruffled raptor

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