I joined the Mudlarks for their monthly bird survey along the Cooks River. This month the survey was the upstream loop from the Lang St Bridge.
Here are some of the birds we saw –
Channel-billed Cuckoos
Dusky Moorhen
Chestnut Teals
Red Wattlebird
Laughing Kookaburra
Superb Fairy-wren
Willie Wagtails
Superb Fairy-wren
Magpie Larks
Great Cormorant
In the middle of the photo below is part of a large eel that was in Cup and Saucer Creek
Chestnut Teal
Pacific Black Duck
Dusky Moorhen chick –
King Parrots
These possums had burst out of their box –
Little Pied Cormorant
Eastern Rosella
Willie Wagtail
Pacific Koels
Masked Lapwing
Australasian Figbird
Laughing Kookaburras
The survey ended with morning tea in Ewen Park. After that, a few of us walked upstream to the cricket nets and soon found the family of Tawny Frogmouths.
And nearby was a Grey Butcherbird –
