I had just enough time for a walk along the Cooks River with my camera. So I caught a bus along Illawarra Road and walked downstream along the River to Gough Whitlam Park and then back the same way.
Here are some of the birds I saw along the way.
Sacred Kingfisher
It was about to cough up a pellet –
And then it flew off –
Little Pied Cormorant
Little Black Cormorant
Tawny Frogmouths
King Parrots
Willie Wagtail
Little Pied Cormorant and Little Black Cormorant
Little Pied Cormorant
Sacred Kingfisher
It had mud crab, their usual diet in the mangroves. They bash them around a bit – perhaps to smash the shell, as they swallow the crabs whole.
Australasian Darter
Sacred Kingfisher
Another pellet being coughed up –
With a diet of crabs, there would be lots of indigestible material to be coughed up.