With the recent spell of very wet weather in Sydney and other places, I have spent fair b of time looking at weather forecasts and studying the rain radar looking for breaks. On this day, it looked better in the afternoon, so I headed out to the station with the intention of catching a train to St Peters and spending a few hours at Sydney Park. Then the train I boarded stayed stationary at the station and the guard’s voice over the PA said they had been instructed to wait due to a broken down train at the next station. So I decided on Plan B – and got off the train and caught the light rail to Taverners Hill and then started off along the Greenway Path down Hawthorne Canal.
The light was very gloomy on the first section, and not may birds were out, so I continued on to Marion St. Now there was a lot more light, but the birds we still elusive.
Red Wattlebird
Along the unofficial path near the river. I was looking for birds, but spotted some fungi.
Puffball – Lycoperdon perlatum
Stinkhorns – Lysurus mokusin
Here are some of the “eggs”, the structures the stinkhorns emerge from.
And where the concrete path/cycleway cars the canal, on the far side where three juvenile White-faced Herons.
One seemed younger than the other two.
And this Magpie Lark was busy.
Another was on a nest.
Then it started raining heavily. I retreated to a nearby kiosk awning and packed away my camera, and then made my way to Hawthorne Light Rail Station and headed home.