The day before had been the Mudlarks Bird Survey on the Cooks River. This morning was the Greenway Bird Survey along the Hawthorne Canal. The group met at 7:30 am at Taverners Hill Light Rail Station.
The sun had just hit the trees opposite and this had brought out a flock of Spotted Pardalotes. It was special to watch these very small, but also very beautiful birds as they hunted for lerps on the leaves of the Eucalypts.
This is a nice sequence –
Harder to photograph was this Golden Whistler –
we then started out along the path by the canal. Here are two cold looking Spotted Doves –
At Marion Street we spotted a Striated Heron. And also this Little Pied Cormorant fishing in the canal (and a Silver Gull) –
New Holland Honeyeater
We also spotted this dead washed up Stingray in the canal –
Two Galahs were feeding on grass seeds –
And the Welcome Swallows were hunting for insects –
Two juvenile White-faced Herons were around, Here is one –
And the second –
Some Australasian Figbirds were harder to photograph –
And one of the Herons flying past –
We finished with coffee at the cafe near Hawthorne Light Rail Station.