It had a been a while since I had been to Sydney Olympic Park, so I decided to make a visit. I caught a train to Strathfield North and then walked down to Mason Park Wetlands. After that I visited Lake Belvedere, then the Bennelong Ponds and the waterbird Refuge at Bicentennial Park, then went to Wentworth Common.
Here are some of what I saw –
Mason Park Wetlands
A Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike –
A Black-fronted Dotterel –
Pied Stilts –
And nearby in Powells Creek, a White-faced Heron –
At Lake Belvedere, there were the usual birds nesting on the island.
And some a bit closer. A Great Egret –
Little Black Cormorants
Australasian Darters
Meanwhile this Turtle was lurking in the pond –
I then walked though the Bennelong Ponds and mangrove areas of Bicentennial Park to the Waterbird Refuge.
Here is a Superb Fairy-wren –
Pied Stilts
Welcome Swallows
I think this is a juvenile Black-fronted Dotterel –
And some more Pied Stilts –
This one has two chicks –
And here they are flying with some Red-necked Avocets –
A Crested Tern –
The only migratory birds I could see were these distant Sharp-tailed Sandpipers –
Later, a Peregrine Falcon flew over –
One more Pied Stilt chick –
And a Great Egret –
I looked carefully in the ponds and reeds at Wentworth Common and did spot a bird lurking. A Crake or Rail? No – it looks like a juvenile Dusky Moorhen.
