I got up early and walked down to the Lang St footbridge on the Cooks River by 7:30 am to join the Mudlarks for their monthly bird survey along the River. This month the group was going downstream, on what we call the Wave Rock Circuit.
It was a beautiful morning and we were soon underway. Here are some of the birds we spotted – Continue reading
It was good to catch up with Digi Dave again for a trip to Bola Creek in Royal National Park to check out the fungi. I was hopeful that conditions would be good as there had been recent rain. But conditions turned out to be a bit disappointing. It seems that since the rain, the weather has been quite hot and windy. We certainly found the leaf litter quite crunchy to walk on in places. Nevertheless, we did find some interesting fungi out.
In one small spot, we found some small pink waxcaps. They appear to be Hygrocybe roseoflavida. Continue reading
It had been a while since I had visited Sassafras Gully at Springwood to look for fungi. I had visited Birdwood Gully on the other (north) side of Springwood quite a few times recently and thought it was time to even things up a bit. on this trip – I went down the track from Sassafras Gully Road and walked down to the Glenbrook Creek junction. I walked out via the Wiggins Track.
I was pleased to find a lot of the striking light blue Entoloma virescens (now called Inocephalus virescens) out in one spot I had seen them on previous trips.
Here are some that I spotted. There were quite a few boletes. Continue reading
After the Tempe Bird Survey, in the afternoon, I headed up to Chatswood and visited Ferndale Park looking for fungi to photograph.
I managed to find some, but conditions were not that great. Here are some that I saw – Continue reading
I joined the Tempe Birdos for their monthly bird survey. Being Easter, the number of participants was smaller than usual – so we did not split up into two groups, and we all surveyed the Wetlands. The birds seemed to be on an Easter holiday too – as it was pretty quiet. Here are some that we spotted –
Pacific Black Ducks
Little Pied Cormorant Continue reading
This is one of my regular walks. I caught a bus to Bexley North and then walked down the Two Valleys Track, all the way along Wolli Creek to its junction with the Cooks River and then walked up the Cooks River to where I could turn off towards home.
This time, I had a late start. I was waiting for the rain to stop.
I was hoping to see a fair bit of fungi out, bit it turned out to be pretty disappointing. Continue reading
I had heard about an Aboriginal art cave in Royal National Park that sounded interesting, so Bob and myself decided to have a look for it.
We set off along a fire road, and then headed into the bush. It was not too scrubby. Continue reading
In the afternoon, I visited Sydney Park. Here are some of the birds I saw.
Australasian Grebe
Hardhead Continue reading
I spent the morning at Mason Park Wetlands at Homebush. Again, I was on the lookout for the Spotted Crake (and the Latham’s Snipe) – and again with no success. But I did observe a lot of other interesting birds.
While I was at the Wetlands, a Brown Goshawk visited on a number of occasions. Continue reading
I was keen to do another visit to Birdwood Gully at Springwood to check out the fungi after recent rain.
I had a good trip, but had to look hard to find the fungi I did. I found quite a lot of interesting fungi, but generally the fungi was not that abundant. Continue reading
