I got back from the Blue Mountains fairly early, and I took advantage of daylight savings to visit some local birds along the Cooks River. I was going down to the Boat Harbour to see the tawny Frogmouths nesting there, and nearby. When I arrived a Striated Heron hunting for fish stole the show.
The tide was low, revealing the mudflats and the Heron was staring in the shallow water keenly looking for fish. It was interesting to watch.
Not every lunge was successful, but many were.
When it caught a fish, it would shake it – back and forth very rapidly, then swallow it.
At one stage it did an amazing shake down.
Then back to hunting.
I am not sure if thus Heron was feeding itself, or getting food to take back to a nest, where they could be regurgitated to feed young.
Now to the Tawny Frogmouths –
I can see one of the two chicks here –
Then the adult (father) seems to doze off and use the chick as a pillow –
It wakes up again.
I then cycled downstream to Younger Avenue. No change in the Tawny Frogmouth here. Still sitting on the nest –
I then continued downstream. In Beaman Park, the Striated Heron was with its chick in the nest.
And no change to the Tawny Frogmouth nesting near Gough Whitlam Park –
