Birds at Sydney Olympic Park – 22 July 2022

The run of wet weather was continuing. With this in mind, I headed to Sydney Olympic Park – where the paths would not be bogs and where there is also some shelter. This worked out well.

I started at the Mason Park Wetlands. Here are some birds I saw there –

Chestnut Teal

Australasian Grebe

Black Swan on nest

At Lake Belvedere, there were a lot of Ibis, and a few other birds. Here is a Great Cormorant.

Hardhead

Moving on to the Bennelong Ponds, I photographed this Red-browed Finch.

Superb Fairy-wren

Pied Cormorant

I then continued to the Waterbird Refuge. Here are some of the birds –

Superb Fairy-wren

Great Egret

Bar-tailed Godwits

Pied Stilt

Grey Butcherbird

Pied Stilts and Red-necked Avocet

Grey Butcherbird

Now in Wentworth Common.

Pacific Black Duck

Australasian Grebe

I was sheltering at one of the undercover picnic tables when I heard a major disturbance. In a tree near me about a dozen Noisy Miners and several Magpies were calling out in a big way. I saw this angry Magpie and I thought it may be raiding a Noisy Miner nest, but that was not the case.

I then spotted a Barn Owl in the tree. All the other birds were trying to drive it away and they succeeded. It soon flew away accompanied by the posse.