This was a day spent in my local area – cycling along the Cooks River Cycleway from Cup and Saucer Creek to Barton Park and then back home.
I started, by looking for Tawny Frogmouths. I found one pair along the Cooks River. One sitting on a nest and the other perched in a nearby tree.
At the Cup and Saucer Creek Wetlands and at the Boat Harbour there were only the usual birds, so I continued down the river to Tempe and then along the cycleway to Landing Lights Wetland at Barton Park.
Here there were now quite a few Pied Stilts and a White-faced Heron.
Perched on a fence was a Bulbul.
I then moved up to the higher level near the sport fields. I could see a distant Black-shouldered Kite.
It was slowly approaching, then I saw another raptor fly past it. It was a larger bird – an Eastern Osprey.
This was the first Osprey I had seen in the Barton Park area. The Osprey left the area, but the Kite remained for a short while.
I then took some photos of the other bids that were around, some Welcome Swallows, some Superb fairy-wrens, a New Holland Honeyeater and a Masked Lapwing –
On my way home, I stopped to photograph some birds on a mudflat in the Cooks River at Cahill Park. There was an Egret and the usual Silver Gulls.
Two Willie Wagtails were chasing each other.
Then a commotion as all the birds flew off. I looked up but couldn’t spot any raptors flying over.
