I attended the Mudlarks Bird Survey along the Cooks River. With daylight saving in force, the group, meets now at 7 am on the Lang Street Bridge. And this month, the group was surveying the downstream Wave Rock loop.
When we started, we spotted an Australian Hobby perched on top of a nearby mobile phone tower. We had seen a Hobby, or two Hobbies, perched on this tower on earlier bird surveys.
In Beaman Park, a Magpie Lark.
A Willie Wagtail with a Bogong Moth.
Australasian Figbird
Crossing over to the Golf Course, we saw a group of Eastern Rosellas.
There were plenty of Australian Ravens. Here was one –
Dusky Moorhen
Another Australasian Figbird –
Masked Lapwing
King Parrot
Masked Lapwing
Crested Pigeon
Near the cricket nets, we spotted one Tawny Frogmouth.
And, just before we finished, two Channel Billed Cuckoos flew overhead –
