The day before I had been fortunate to hear about a new species of Flying Fox at the Turrella Camp on Wolli Creek. The light had been very bad for photography when I visited in the late afternoon, so I thought I would return to try and get some better photos. I also decided to first visit Sydney Park to see what birds were out.
At Sydney Park, I had a pleasant time. Not long after I arrived I spotted a quite distant Buff-banded Rail –
And I also saw a Brown Quail family –
Here are some of the more common birds at the park. An Australian Swamphen –
A Royal Spoonbill –
This Willie Wagtail caught a nice dragonfly –
A Darter fly overhead –
A White-headed Heron –
Here are some Eastern Long-necked Turtles –
And some more stinkhorns were out –
Phallus rubicundus
Lysurus mokusin
And I was able to get another look at one of the Quails –
I then travelled to Turrella, which took three separate trains. Here is a White-faced Heron hunting at the footbridge ver Wolli Creek –
And a New Holland Honeyeater –
At the Flying Fox Camp, the Little-red Flying Foxes were in the same place I had seen them the afternoon before.
I was hard to get a photo of one of them flying. This was the best I could do –
And for comparison, here is a Grey-headed Flying Fox –
