This was another pleasant day spent in the Northern Beaches area. I started off at Warriewood Wetlands and the neighbouring Irrawong Reserve, then visited some nearby sport fields, and then visited Long Reef for the low tide.
At Warriewood Wetlands I photographed some other animals. Here is a Flying Fox with baby clinging to it –
And an Eastern Long-necked Turtle –
Here are some of the birds at the Wetlands –
Purple Swamphens
Eurasian Coots
White-cheeked Honeyeaters
Superb Fairy-wrens
Red Wattlebird
Australasian Grebes
Reed Warbler
Dollarbird
When a Royal Spoonbill landed in one of the ponds it caused a bit of a ruckus. It landed too close to a family of Dusky Moorhens.
Then things settled down.
At Irrawong Reserve I spotted these birds –
Eastern Yellow Robin
Lewin’s Honeyeater
Dollarbird
I then made my way down Mullet Creek without seeing anything interesting. The same as I walked around the shore of Narrabeen Lagoon at Lakeside Park. At Rat Park, there were no Ospreys at the nest. It looked to me like the Ospreys had abandoned it.
So I then made my way to Long Reef. There had been some reports of a Crimson Chat being in the area, but I could not spot it, so I walked out to the rock platform. The tide was low. There were no migratory birds to be seen. The Crested Terns seemed to be going through a moult. They all seemed to be pecking their feathers and then bathing in the rock pools.
On the north side, I spotted the Nankeen Kestrel that has nested in the area.
