Bird Numbers Prior to The WET are Enormous

These two photos show a small percentage of the birds I witness thronging both banks of the South Alligator River in Kakadu, I have said in a past posting that I guesstimated the number of Magpie Geese at well over 400,000 but I think that is a conservative guess. The first photo shows the Western shore and as you can see the rows go back a long way, the second shot shows the row upon row behind the Rangers Boat on the Eastern Shore. The rangers were out placing weevils (or such) on the the Salvinia fern (a home aquarium plant) which got into the wetlands and threatens the entire eco-system, it seems to be working as the last time I was here, the Yellow Waters Billabong and a lot of the South Alligator River were virtually blocked by the weed, and that was during the Wet Season and the river level was about 15 foot higher than I have displayed here and the river would have spread all the way to the trees you can see behind the Rangers and The Geese, and those behind the geese on the Western shore too! _ It's not called the WET for nothing!