Day 17 of lockdown. With a 10 km (or local government area) limit being imposed, I checked places I could go for my exercise breaks, and decided a bike ride along the Cooks River Cycleway to South Strathfield and then a ride around Rookwood Necropolis would be interesting.
It had been a long time since I had visited Rookwood. That trip had been a bike ride too. I had thought Rookwood was just a cemetery, but the map said it was a “necropolis”, and even though I had heard this word, I looked it up to find out what the proper meaning was. A city of the dead. And one interesting thing, the Victorian era Rookwood Necropolis is the largest in the World according to Wikipedia.
As well a bike ride for exercise, once at Rookwood, I would also look to see what birds were around. Here are some that I saw –
Red-browed Finch
On the side closest to the western railway line, there was a nice section of bushland. This was a good place to look for birds.
New Holland Honeyeater
The most common honeyeater were Yellow-faced Honeyeaters. There were hundreds of them in the woodland.
Here is female Golden Whistler –
Grey Fantail –
I spotted a Nankeen Kestrel. It was out hunting.
This was close to a building that is known as “The Elephant House”, not because it ever held elephants, but because it was similar to a building that did hold elephants at Taronga Zoo.
I rode around many of the roads at the necropolis, then headed to a nearby park for a short lunch break. Then cycled home. On the way home, at the Boat Harbour, I spotted the resident Tawny Frogmouth pair.
