I visited Wolli Creek Regional Park, near Earlwood, to spend more time photographing the nesting Sacred Kingfishers again. It was a good visit as the birds were quite active in bringing food to their nest.
Not long after I arrived, I heard a Sacred Kingfisher calling. When they have food in their beaks, they seem to use their “screaming” type call, rather than their contact/territorial call. Perhaps it is the only call they can make with a partly open beak?
I also think this is the male. It then visited the nest.
The food, a skink, was not delivered.
After some more calling, it looked like the food had been given to the female parent.
It was now delivered to the nest.
It landed nearby.
A bit later it came back with an insect.
And it was delivered to the nest.
And a bit later, it had caught a spider.
And another delivery.
It was nice to quietly watch these birds feeding their nestlings.