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Many of the larger Diamantina waterholes are holding water and floodplain vegetation is just starting to dry back from the deep green after flooding earlier in the year.Ìý There are moderate numbers of waterbirds – Pelicans, cormorants, herons, spoonbills, Grey Teal, Black Duck and Wood Duck.

Lake Yamma Yamma (which fills from Cooper Creek) is one of the largest desert lakes in Queensland with a massive surface area of 72,000 ha. It only fills to capacity once every 20-30 years with the last major fill in c. 2000.

Today's count is low with small numbers of Pelicans, cormorants, Wood Duck and terns and there are no breeding rookeries detected.

The upper Bulloo and Warrego Rivers have only moderate amounts of water in their deeper billabongs and channels and there are only small numbers of waterbirds to be found

The last section of our counting today is mainly small dams, swamps and lagoons along creeklines and watercourses with relatively small numbers of waterbirds. Finally near Kingaroy are the larger wetlands of Wooroolin Swamp and Lake Barambah and these have moderate to high numbers of waterbirds -Lake Barambah has a large mixed flock of several thousand cormorants (Great and Little Black Cormorants) as well as hundreds of Pelicans.

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