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Darter and Cormorant Breeding season

September 30, 2020 by

Every year, a large number of darters and cormorants breed at Princes Bridge, near Balyang Sanctuary in Geelong. For 6 months, I got to watch multiple breeding cycles of all species.

This page curates the posts showing what happened last season.

Highlights:

  • Baby Darters: Eyes Are Open!
  • Little Pied Cormorant Feeding: You Can See It Regurgitate
  • Parents encouraging cormorants to climb out of the nest
  • Awesome cormorant feeding photos
  • Darter Pre Mating Ritual
  • More Photos of Little Pied Cormorant Nesting Behaviour
  • Darter Chicks Sharing Food With Siblings
  • Teeny Weeny Darter Chicks: Again
  • Nesting Little Black Cormorants
  • Little Black Cormorants Showing Nesting Behaviour
  • Princes Bridge Little Pied Cormorants #2

Timeline:

October, 2015

Little Pied Cormorant Courtship: The first time I saw courtship behaviour at ‘The Mating Tree’ at Balyang. The photos were substandard as the view was obscured.

Little Pied Cormorant Nest building  Fascinating seeing both birds work together placing the small branches on the nest

Mating Little Pied Cormorants at Balyang. First observed mating attempt. Occured shortly after the courtship in the previous post.

Princes Bridge Darter Photos

The Princes Bridge Darters have hatched!

Baby Darters: Eyes Are Open!

November

Princes Bridge Darters Switching Duties

The Mating Tree: Baby Cormorants Have Hatched!

Darter Chicks: And Then There Were Three

The Baby Cormorants at Balyang Are Growing Up

Darters: Still going strong

More cormorant feeding action

December

Cormorants are starting to leave the nest! + other observations

Did the darters leave the nest – or where they pushed?

Baby darters have left the nest!

Little Pied Cormorant Feeding: You Can See It Regurgitate

Cormorant falling out of the nest

Parents encouraging cormorants to climb out of the nest

Juvenile Cormorants Have Left The Nest

Awesome cormorant feeding photos

Darter Pre Mating Ritual

Darter Mating: Indifference

Darters Mating!

Fledged Cormorants At Different Ages

Don’t feed so close to me!

Young Cormorant Grooming

Darter Feeding Grown Up Chick

Plumage Changes With Little Black Cormorants

The darters have eggs!

Little Black Cormorants Showing Nesting Behaviour

Courtship Ritual Of Little Black Cormorants

Juvenile Darters

January

Immature Little Pied Cormorants: Almost Grown Up

More Photos of Little Pied Cormorant Nesting Behaviour

Darter Chicks Sharing Food With Siblings

Nesting Little Black Cormorants

Better Look At Baby Cormorants

The Little Black Cormorants Have Eggs!

Teeny Weeny Darter Chicks: Again

February

Little Black Cormorant Chicks near Balyang

Recently Hatched Little Black Cormorant Chicks

The Second Darter Family

Princes Bridge Little Pied Cormorants #1

Princes Bridge Darters #1

Princes Bridge Little Pied Cormorants #2

Princes Bridge Darters # 2

Close Up Views Of Little Black Cormorants

Little Black Cormorants Getting Fed

Little Black Cormorant: Both Adults At Nest

Darters are breeding AGAIN!

March:

Princes Bridge Little Black Cormorants #1

Princes Bridge Little Black Cormorants #2

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