I made a morning visit to Barton Park to photograph the birds. This visit the highlight was a foraging Buff-banded Rail – and it was fairly cooperative.
When I arrived, I found the water level in the Landing Lights Wetland fairly low with a lot of exposed mudflats – good conditions for Dotterels. I scanned the mudflats with my binoculars but could not spot and Dotterels. But I did see a Buff-banded Rail up the far end of the pond. By the time I made my way there, it had vanished. But it later returned.
Here are some of the birds I saw –
Superb Fairy-wren
Great Egret
Pied Stilts
This Channel-billed Cuckoo is the first I have been able to photograph this season –
Golden-headed Cisticola
Superb Fairy-wren
New Holland Honeyeater
Pied Stilt
A Striated Heron was hunting for fish in the Spring St Canal –
Superb Fairy-wren
Buff-banded Rail
I watched the Rail foraging along the banks of the main pond for quite a few minutes.
A Black-shouldered Kite flew past the wetlands –
Red-browed Finch
