The local bird surveys keep on coming. This time it was the early morning survey along the Hawthorne Canal section of the Greenway. The group meets at Taverners Hill Light Rail Station at 7:30 am.
It was relatively quiet at Taverners Hill Station. Perhaps the birds were waiting for the sun?
Currawong
New Holland Honeyeaters
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
Australasian Figbirds
Lower down along the cycleway, a Brush Turkey was wondering how to get back to the other side of the fence –
Red Wattlebird
Superb Fairy-wren
Currawong
Willie Wagtail
A pair of Magpie Larks near Marion Street –
Silver Gull
A poor photo – of a White-browed Scrubwren (rare here) –
Willie Wagtails
Little Pied Cormorant
Striated Heron
Another Heron was hunting nearby. A White-faced Heron –
Back to the Striated Heron –
Another White-faced Heron –
Noisy Miner
Grey Butcherbird
And one more White-faced Heron –
As usual, we finished off with coffee at a local cafe. On the way home, I got off the tram at Waratah Mills and spotted the Tawny Frogmouth perched near the station in the same tree as we had seen it earlier –
