Some Birds at Sydney Park – 1 December 2021

I had a busy first day of Summer, visiting Sydney Park and then Barton Park and later walking home via the Cooks River. I will keep this post for Sydney Park only. I had some good photographic opportunities with the birds there.

Australian Reed Warbler

Here are some of the birds I saw –

Laughing Kookaburra

Galahs

Royal Spoonbill

Little Pied Cormorant on nest

Australasian Figbirds

While I was watching the Figbirds, I saw them cashing insects many times.

Australian Reed-Warbler

By this time, The Little Pied Cormorant had left the nest to hunter some food.

Australasian Grebe

There was one Grebe in the large pond.

Eurasian Coot – juvenile

This Eurasian Coot has a newly hatched chick.

The Royal Spoonbill had moved to the large pond where it rested and preened.

Near the Frog Pond, a Buff-banded Rail made a brief appearance.

And here are some Magpie Lark chicks in their nest –

On previous visits I had seen a nesting Tawny Frogmouth with a chick. Their nest has now been abandoned and I assume the chick has fledged successfully. But, despite a lot of looking I could not locate them in the park.

And for some Turtles –

And some Stinkhorns where out after recent rain.

I then caught a bus to Barton Park to see what birds were there.