Wolli Creek and Cooks River Walk – 12 July 2021

Day 16 of lockdown. I decided it was about time to walk down Wolli Creek again and then return home by walking up the Cooks River. Along Wolli Ck I saw birds and fungi, and then more birds along the Cooks River.

Along Wolli Creek, I saw quite a few birds in the upper part between Bexley North and Bardwell Park. Here are some photos of Welcome Swallows at Illoura –

In some of the photos, even at this small size, you can justice the insects they are about to eat.

Here is a Grey Fantail –

And I saw at least two Spangled Drongos that seem to be overwintering along Wolli Creek.

And an Australasian Figbird –

Here is a male Golden Whistler –

And last, a White-browed Scrubwren –

Now for some of the fungi that I saw along Wolli Creek.

Here is an Earth Star and some coral fungus –

Cruentomycena viscidocruenta –

Clavulinopsis sulcata – 

Clavulinopsis amoena – 

Hygrocybe virginea – 

Russula rosea – 

Russula persanguinea –

The ones above were all close to the climbing area. The ones below were downstream of Turrella Reserve, near an old quarry.

Hygrocybe collucera – 

Gliophorus graminicolor – 

Gliophorus chromolimoneus – 

Hygrocybe sp. – 

Hygrocybe batesii – 

Hygrocybe griseoramosa – 

Geoglossum sp. – 

I then continued downstream to the Cooks River junction at Waterworth Park. The focusses back to birds. Here is a Willie Wagtail –

At Tempe, I crossed ove to near the station to photograph a White-faced Heron, a Little Pied Cormorant and a Little Egret –

Then approaching Illawarra Road, I spotted a Sacred Kingfisher. I stopped to watch it for a while.

It soon caught a crab.

Then it seemed to rest for a while.

It coughed up a pellet.

The pellet would contain a lot of undigested bits of crab shell. It was soon after more food.

Another crab –

Crab 3 –

Then a second Sacred Kingfisher turned up.

More crabs.

One last bird – a Little Pied Cormorant.