A good autumn beginning for Fivebough Swamp

Sunday April 17th

Currently Fivebough Swamp has the greatest amount of water present in April for the past 10 years, with water now covering ~90% of the wetland.

Numbers of Brolga are at their highest for many years, and Australasian Bitterns have returned early. Very few northern migrants are still present, with 31 Sharp-tailed Sandpipers recorded during the last wetland survey April 24, 2005. Glossy Ibis to have diminished from a height 15,000 present during November 2004 to 4 birds remaining today, and they can be expected to become absent during May.