I was able to join the Mudlarks for their early morning bird survey along the Cooks River. This month the group survey upstream from Ewen Park to The Boat Harbour, then across the river to Cup and Saucer Creek Wetlands, and down on the true right crossing back over just upstream of Ewen Park (the downstream bridge is being rebuilt). We saw a good range of birds –
Tawny Frogmouths
There were a pair at the Boat Harbour –
And a nesting pair near Younger Avenue.
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
Australasian Darter
We saw two of these –
Little black Cormorants
Striated Heron
Willie Wagtail – sitting on a nest
About a metre away was a Magpie Lark feeding chicks in a nest –
Royal Spoonbill
Superb Fairy-wren
