I attended the Mudlarks Bird Survey along the Cooks River. This month , the survey was the upstream loop, from the Land Street Footbridge to the Boat Harbour then across the River to Cup and Saucer Creek Wetlands and then back down to Ewen Park for morning tea. After this I walked down the Cooks River to Gough Whitlam Park, and back to Illawarra Road for some more bird photography.
First. the birds on the Mudlarks Survey. Here are some of them.
Little Corellas
An Australian Hobby was spotted on the same phone antenna tower we spotted pair last survey. Only very distant photos.
Magpie Lark
Brush-tailed Possum
Pacific Black Ducks
Now at the Boat Harbour.
Dusky Moorhen
Great Egret
Grey Teal
Pelican
The Great Egret had moved to the pollution boom
Little Pied Cormorant
Silver Gull
Great Egret
Little Black Cormorant
Magpie Lark
The Great Egret moved to the far side of the river.
It caught a tiny fish.
Now at Cup and Saucer Creek Wetlands.
Purple Swamphen
Pacific Black Duck
Purple Swamphen
The Great Egret had flown up to the wetland –
Another Brush-tailed Possum –
Chestnut Teals
We spotted this Dusky Moorhen nest –
Little Corellas
I missed photographing a White-headed Pigeon that was observed by others in the group.
After morning tea at Ewen Park, I walked downstream. I spotted two Sacred Kingfishers just below Illawarra Road.
Tawny Frogmouths at Gough Whitlam Park –
Golden Whistler
Australasian Darter
A pair of Eastern Rosellas were feeding on the grass seeds.
Little Black Cormorant
Walking back upstream,, I spotted the same two Sacred Kingfishers again.
Little Pied Cormorant
Back to the Sacred Kingfishers –
It landed, then flew down and grabbed a Mudcrab.
The crab needs to be prepared before eating.
It is now ready for swallowing.
It had been a very good morning.