Bardoongooba the shoveler is back at the lake today for the first time since the earlier rains. Marangana the wood duck shoos with his mouth open each time I have seen him do it. The shelduck poises itself against a shoo from the coot, which does not come. Instead, coot shoos yet the Pacific black duck. Dooram dooram the singing honeyeater shoos djiddy djiddy the wagtail. The amount of grass is worth noting again—coming up thick and wide. No hardheads seen today after so many yesterday. A turtle puts its head above the water on a western section and looks my way for a long time, going back under when I eventually move. There are close to a dozen karak red-tailed cockatoos on the norther side of the lake eating the small nuts on a large, grey-smooth-bark eucalypt. And in the middle tree with owls a second adult can be seen.