Magic Moments

Thursday evening April 4th.
As is my won't I set off in the necessary pursuit of food and beer 🐯. In a period of 10 minutes along the front shoreline I encountered:  Striated Heron flying left, Collared Kingfisher perched on branch of a dead tree just 5 metres in front of me and below that a Pacific or Eastern Reef Egret feeding on the beach the same distance below me. The latter is not only a lifer but also a bird I've fantasised about in the past thirty years that I've been coming to this area.
The episode concluded with a large raptor putting in an all too brief appearance coming into land in a tree; methinks a Fish Eagle species but I'll let that one go.