Jawbone Flora & Fauna Reserve

[Grumpy John]

This morning I met up with a bird photography group that I found online at their monthly outing at Jawbone Flora and Fauna Reserve. It was a bleak and miserable outing with constant heavy drizzle and a dark sky making selecting settings difficult, for me at least. The only bonus was that there were no sharp shadows to contend with.
This is a fantastic location with a great variety of birds on view, I will definitely be going back when the weather is a bit more hospitable.

I have made an attempt to identify the birds in these images, please let me know if I got any wrong.

#1 Pied Stilt. I really do apologise for the IQ on this one, just posted for identification purposes.


#2 I think that these are Grey Teal, but I'm probably wrong


#3 Magpie Geese???? I only have images of these guys flying away from the camera, maybe they are in a witness protection program


#4 2 x Pacific Blacks and 2 x Grey Teal.


I will post some more images later today.

[Grumpy John]

Some more from Jawbone.

#5 Pied Cormorant. Getting ready for a big night out.


#6 Royal Spoonbill.


#7 Leave us alone, no one here wants their photo taken. Could the brown ducks with the black head be Australasian Shellduck's?


#8 Australasian Swamphen.

[Isac]

You have some correct John. Just confirming and correcting some of them.
#1 - Black-winged Stilt
#2 - Pink Eared Duck (Zebra Duck)
#4 - Grey Teal
#5 - Pied Cormorant
#7 - Hardhead Duck

[Grumpy John]

Thanks Isac, this bird identification lark (no pun intended) can get confusing.
From Wikipedia.
"The black-winged stilt (Himantopus himantopus) is a widely distributed very long-legged wader in the avocet and stilt family (Recurvirostridae). The scientific name H. himantopus was formerly applied to a single, almost cosmopolitan species. It is now normally applied to the form that is widespread in Eurasia and Africa and which was formerly regarded as the nominate subspecies of Himantopus himantopus sensu lato. The scientific name Himantopus comes from the Greek meaning "strap foot" or "thong foot".^[2] Most sources today accept 2–4 species.^{[3][4][5][6][7][8]}It is sometimes called pied stilt, but that name is now reserved for the Australian species, Himantopus leucocephalus."

You have some correct John. Just confirming and correcting some of them.
#1 - Black-winged Stilt
#2 - Pink Eared Duck (Zebra Duck) Looks the same as #4 which you are calling a Grey Teal. I'm assuming that the one top left is a Pacific Black
#4 - Grey Teal
#5 - Pied Cormorant
#7 - Hardhead Duck

[Grumpy John]

Yeah, okay.

[Grumpy John]

I'll have to go and fix up my Metadata now . Thanks for that Isac, I did not look hard enough, but you are right they are completely different. I can see why the Pink Eared is also called a Zebra Duck.

[Isac]

At our age we must always make allowances John, so I will in this case