Sydney Park Visit – 7 March 2022

This day I was able to make a short visit to Sydney Park. Like before, it was quite wet at the park.

My aim was to try and find and photograph the Buff-banded Rails chicks I had seen, but not photographed, two visits back. A secondary aim was to looks for the Quails again.

Here are some of the birds I saw as I wandered around –

Tawny Frogmouths

Black Swan

The Island Pond was choked up with vegetation.

Little Black Cormorant

I later saw it hunting in the Island Pond –

And this Dusky Moorhen is standing on the vegetation.

This juvenile Magpie Lark is screaming to its parent for food.

The parent flies off and soon returns with a worm.

I had no luck with the Buff-banded Rails in the spot I had seen them earlier, but at the back of the Frog Pond, I saw small bird scurrying away without being able to identify it. I went back t the path and spotted a pair of Buff-banded Rails foraging in the vegetation. Difficult to photograph. This was the best I could do –

I had also been a few times to the spot where I had seen the Brown Quails on my previous visit, without any luck, but one time I was lucky. A single Brown Quail was on the path and stayed long enough for me to get some nice photos.