I got up early and headed to Tempe Wetlands for the Tempe Birdos monthly survey. The weather was not the best – dark and gloomy with light rain. With slightly better light at Tempe Reserve, I joined the group surveying there.
But before heading to the Reserve, I went down to the pond and photographed a family of Dusky Moorhens.
At Tempe Reserve, we spotted a Little Heron –
Magpies
The tide was high and the salt marsh was full.
The rain kept many birds away. We saw very few waterbirds.
Silver Gull
The saltmarsh from the other side –
Australian White Ibis
A Little Black Cormorant with its head down.
Magpie Lark
Noisy Miner
Little Pied Cormorant
Australasian Figbirds on the far side of the Cooks River.
Noisy Miner
After morning tea, the weather improved a bit, so I walked along the Cooks River all the way to Canterbury Road.
Little Black Cormorants
Little Pied Cormorant
Little Black Cormorants near Tempe Station.
Black Faced Cuckoo Shrikes at Gough Whitlam Park –
The nesting Tawny Frogmouth at Gough Whitlam Park –
Other birds were nesting. Magpie Larks –
And another nest –
Little Pied Cormorant
At Marrrickville Golf Course, I spotted a pair of Tawny Frogmouths. They were not nesting.
And another nesting pair of Tawny Frogmouths at Ewen Park –
I looked for more Tawny Frogmouths at the Boat Harbour and the Leslie Muir Reserve but had no success.
Pandemonium broke out when a Brown Goshawk appeared. It was being chased by an Australian Raven.
