Mudlarks – Cooks River Bird Survey – 9 September 2025

I attended the Mudlarks Bird Survey along the Cooks River. This month, the early morning survey went upstream from the Lang Street Bridge to the Boat Harbour, then to Cup and Saucer Creek Wetlands, and back on that side of the River.

Here are some photos –

Laughing Kookaburra

Little Pied Cormorant

Grey Butcherbird

Royal Spoonbill

Superb Fairy-wren

Willie Wagtail

Magpie Lark

Rainbow Lorikeets

A Turtle at the Cup and Saucer Creek Wetlands –

Chestnut Teal

Pacific Black Duck

Dusky Moorhen

Chestnut Teal

Magpie

Purple Swamphen

And, on previous surveys, we have seen this Brush-tailed Possum before, bursting out of a box –

Australian Raven on nest –

Magpie at a nest –

Magpie Lark at a nest –

Great Cormorant

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