Cooks River Walk – 3 July 2021

Day 7 of lockdown. This time I set off in the morning for an exercise walk along the Cooks River as I thought it would be less crowded. It was still pretty crowded, although perhaps less crowded than it would have been in the afternoon. It was a nice sunny day.

I walked down to the Cooks River at Wardell Road and crossed the Lang Street Bridge and hen walked upstream. As I mentioned above, a lot of people were out and about exercising.  Family groups on bikes, people walking their dogs, walkers striding along, others ambling. It was nice to be outside enjoying the great weather. And all seemed to be social distancing.  Some were doing their exercise on the river.

A little upstream, in one of the bush regeneration areas I saw a lot of fungi. Leratiomyces ceres which often comes up in wood chip mulch.

On the far side of the river, a Royal Spoonbill was feeding.

I continued walking upstream. A large and noisy flock of Sulphur-crested Cockatoos flew over. Here are two of them –

At the Boat Harbour, I soon spotted the local Tawny Frogmouth pair. See the first photo. A few cormorants were around. Here is a Little Pied Cormorant –

On the solution boom, there were a lot of Little Black Cormorants –

Some flew off and started fishing.

Here is a Magpie Lark.

And also on the boom was a Pelican –

Up at Cup and Saucer Creek, I walked around the wetlands. Here is a feeding Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo –

Walking back downstream, I took another photos of the Tawny Frogmouths at the Boat Harbour.

And continuing on the other side of the river, I spotted the Tawny Frogmouth pair at Younger Avenue.