I decided in the afternoon to make a visit to Sydney Olympic Park to look for some interesting fungi that others had seen there. I had a rough idea of the location, and it look worth taking a bike and riding there from North Strathfield Station. This would allow me to check out Mason Park Wetlands and The Waterbird Refuge at Bicentennial Park first.
Pseudocolus fuciformis
I did not see too may birds at Mason Park wetlands, so I continued on to the Waterbird Refuge. Here was a Great Egret –
And here are few of the many Black Swans there –
I then continued on to look for the fungi. They were supposed to near the path that went past Woo-la-ra. I was on the lookout for some stinkhorns, Pseudocolus fuciformis. I eventually found some. They were smaller than I expected. but also they were mostly finished.
Not far way were some Ileodictyon gracile the Smooth Cage Fungus.
I looked around a bit more, and then headed back to the Waterbird Refuge. I stopped to photograph a Royal Spoonbill –
It then caught something.
It had caught what looks like a prawn. It has a long tail like structure, which is probably an antenna.
It washed its food –
Then squeezed it –
