2025 A Day in the Bay
My second attempt at Melbourne's best birding competition.
Cherry Lake
About this location
Cherry Lake is a large artificial lake and wetland reserve in Altona, surrounded by open grassland and heavily managed parkland. Its western and northern margins retain coastal saltmarsh habitat used by a wide range of waterbirds, while stands of chaffy saw-sedge support the locally significant Altona skipper butterfly. The adjoining buffer wetlands and revegetated mounds also provide additional habitat along the lake’s northern edge.
- Country
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- Habitat types
- Wetland, Lake, Grassland, Parkland
- First visit
- 16 August 2023
Recent trip reports
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