I spent an interesting morning at Barton Park photographing birds. Most of the birds I saw were at The Landing Lights Wetland and its hinterland.
Walking up to Landing Light Wetland, I could see a White-faced Heron on top of the sawer vent – Continue reading
Another visit to Nurragingy Reserve at Doonside. Again, I was joined by Sue, and we had a most enjoyable and interesting day.
The day started off fairly quiet. We were looking for Pacific Bazas and Kingfishers. We did spot one Sacred Kingfisher along the perimeter firewood, but it was too fast for a photo. But after lunch things improved a lot.
Here are some of the birds we saw – Continue reading
I attended the fungal survey with the Sydney Fungal Studies Group Inc held at Bola Creek in Royal National Park. As usual, for the Bola Creek surveys, we had members of the Friends of Royal attend.
Spider infected with a Cordyceps like fungus
There has been some recent rainfall, but not enough for really good fungal fruiting. And the weather on the day of our visit, and during the lead up had been very hot for the time of the year.
But with a keen group, we did find some interesting fungi. Continue reading
Bob suggested visiting Why Don’t We Do It In The Road Canyon at Mt Wilson as this weeks trip. A very hot day was forecast – so it would be nice to be in a canyon, and one that did not involve too much walking.
Some history of this canyon.
We often visited the lower section of the canyon on trips down Wollangambe Canyon in the 1970’s. We would park our lilos at the junction and walk and scramble upstream about 50 m and enter a very dark cave full of glow worms. But we never went upstream from there, although it is not very difficult to climb on ledges and over a chockstone to above the last abseil. Continue reading
The Mudlarks Cooks River Bird Survey was planned originally for the previous Tuesday, but wet weather saw it postponed to this Thursday. It was warm and muggy, but a lot better than the weather earlier.
This month, the survey was along the upstream loop, from the Lang Street Bridge to the Boat Harbour, then across to Cup and Saucer Creek and returning on that side.
Early on we observed a large flock of Little Corellas – Continue reading
I had some spear time while in Newtown, and decided to visit the horse trough in Camperdown Park. I had seen it before, but had not realised it was a horse trough, since the actual trough part of it had been filled in with concrete.
The historic horse trough is now marked as the “Sullivan RSPCA Memorial”. As well as the horse trough, at each end are smaller troughs for dogs. Continue reading
I took part in the early morning bird survey along the Hawthorne Canal section of The Greenway.
At Taverners Hill Light Rail Station we noticed a flock of White-throated Needletails (A type of Swift) flying high overhead. Continue reading
I joined Brian Everingham and party for a very nice bushwalking trip in the Curra Moors of Royal National Park. Brian led the walk for the National Parks Association of NSW. The Curra Moors Track was closed for maintenance, so we walked down the fire road, all the way to Eagle Rock, and then returned back the same way.
In the party, as well as Brian, there was Sue, Helen, Derek, Judith, Vivienne, Elaine, Stephanie and myself.
While waiting for the group to all arrive, I photographed some of the local New Holland Honeyeaters hunting for insects – Continue reading
I was intending to do a substantial walk along Wolli Creek from Bexley North to at least Turella Reserve, but the weather was not the best – light rain, and very poor light for bird photography. And the rain kept many of the birds quiet.
In the end, I only walked down to Girrahween Park, and then caught a bus home. Naturally, whenI got home, the Sun came out and the weather was a lot better.
Here are some of the birds I did see –
White-browed Scrubwrens
I took part in the Tempe Birdos’ survey in the early morning. This month, I joined the group surveying Tempe Reserve. After the survey, I walked par two the way home along the Cooks River and photographed a few more birds.
Walking to Tempe Wetlands, when I went past Ikea, I spotted some stinkhorns growing in the wood chips near the bus stop. Phallus rubicundus – Continue reading
