Fogg Dam. Yeah, Fogg Dam. I MEAN IT, FOGG DAM!
Here is Fogg Dam.
And here is Birdlife.
Except, there aren’t any parrots at Fogg Dam. There are egrets and storks and jacanas at the place I’m talking about. So, where should I start?
You can’t see from this photograph, but this bird happens to be a incredible BigFoot, which allows it to walk on lilypads. They also build nests on lilypads too, to steer their home away from any kind of danger………
Ok, it took us about 1hr to get there. We were going to go to a place called Bird Billabong, but we decided to go to Fogg Dam for a little while. We had my Field Guide to the Birds of Australia with us, and we were hoping to be able to use it. So we stopped on the side of the road, and sat down on a platform. There were many different birds. Then Dad saw a a little one on a lily pad. We later identified it as a Comb-Crested Jacana. Here’s a pic;
Cool, eh? That was our first Bird. We got back in the car and drove some more. We found a higher platform and stopped again. The view looked lovely, but we didn’t see anything much. We drove on. We were going to go on a walk, but it was closed due to crocs. We found another path and started on that one instead. We saw some snakes (wow), and some big spiderwebs (double wow), but the track took forever, so we never finished it (awwwwww). We drove back, and saw the two other Birds. A majestic Black-Necked Stork,
and the Intermediate Egret.
We still were supposed to go to Bird Billabong, but we had spent so long at Fogg Dam that we decided to go another time.