I hand packed my bird camera and was heading out for the day. While travelling to Redfern, I decided to head out to Doonside at visit Nurragingy Reserve. It had been a while since I had been there.
During my visit, it was relatively quiet. I am always on the lookout for Azure Kingfishers when I visit Nurragingy, bit this time they eluded me. So did the Blue Faced Honeyeaters and quite a few other birds. But it was a pleasant time seeing what else was there. Here is a selection –
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
Australasian Grebes
There were two in the big pond and three in the other pond with the bridge. Two if these seemed to be building a nest –
Little Black Cormorant
Little Pied Cormorant
Brown Thornbill
Crested Shrike-tit
Grey Fantail
Golden Whistler
White-browed Scrubwren
Turtle
Australasian Grebes
This Grey Butcherbird was collecting nesting material.
Noisy Miner
This bird was taking a bath.
Australasian Grebes
Little Pied Cormorant
Australasian Grebes
I had arrived at the Reserve a little after 10 am and stayed till a bit after 2 pm. A nice visit.
Hello David,
1. Just back from Curra Moors firetrail, the flowering is stunning.
2. Muogamarra Reserve is open for six weeks from next weekend, but you have to book online. https://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/things-to-do/muogamarra-open-season. First time open since the pandemic.
3. Still time to lodge submission about plans for Wolli Creek (commercialization, rock climbing, etc.) and Cooks River (turning into a theme park with light on all night – as strathfield council already done for over 3km of lights for no purpose). Subs until end of this week 13 August 2022. see: https://haveyoursay.cbcity.nsw.gov.au/planning-our-green-corridors.
Thanks David if you publish. Jacob.