I spent the day visiting some local birding sites. I started by catching train to St Peters and visiting Sydney Park for an hour or so, then a bus to Barton Park for a few hours, then a bus to Tempe, and a walk home via the Cooks River.
I particularly wanted to visit Barton Park because I was concerned about recent removal of habitat. Continue reading
Our group was weeding at Barrenjoey. The headland contains an important ecological community of coastal grassland, and it is often encroached with weeds. Our group had been working on Barrenjoey for many years now – but there is still a lot more to do.
Most of the group circumnavigated the headland close to the sea level in an anticlockwise direction. As well as removing weeds, we could observe a range of wildlife. In this group were NPWS officer Jude, Enmoore, Martin, Steffy, Peter and myself. Continue reading
I headed back to Sydney’s coastal cliffs to take more photos of a family of Peregrine Falcons. I had visited this family not long before.
This visit I was able to get some better photos of them interacting in the air. Continue reading
Sculpture by the Sea was back on again after a break of a few years due to Covid and other factors. I spent a pleasant morning with Valerie looking at the exhibits.
We met at the bus stop at Bondi Junction station, and caught a bus to Tamarama. Then it was down to the beach and a look at the sculptures. Here are some – Continue reading
Bob and myself had decided to do another heritage bushwalking trip in the norther parts of Sydney. We were looking for an old trig station and we also hoped to see some Aboriginal sites.
We soon found the old trig station. It lay a short way off from a fire road. But you could not see it from the road due to thick scrub. Continue reading
This was the next in my series of trips to Malabar Headland to photograph the Peregrine Falcons. On this occasion I was joined by Sue and we had an enjoyable and interesting day.
We met at Maroubra Beach and walked into the National Park and were soon heading towards Boora Point. The seas were quite rough on the day. Continue reading
We had quite a wet day on the National Parks Association walk to North Head from Manly. But despite the rain we still had a great outing.
The walk was led by Brian Everingham, and the party included Valerie, Sue B, Paul, Amanda, Suzanne, Sue F and myself. Continue reading
Over the past five years I have been documenting a breeding pair of Peregrine Falcons on Malabar Headland. However on this day I visited another section of the Sydney Coastline in order to photograph a family of Peregrine Falcons. This pair have three chicks that fledged, perhaps three weeks ago, so they are quite good fliers.
I didn’t intend to stay most of the day, but the juveniles put on a good flying display, so I stayed from around 10:30 am till around 5 pm. I had a late start to avoid a storm that seemed to be passing over the area. Continue reading
Valerie had been on the earlier Greenway Bird Survey, and during morning tea, we talked about an afternoon walk down Wolli Ck. So we met on the bus to Bexley North and started down the Two Valleys Track.
We had no fixed plans to walk all the way along the creek and then back up the Cooks River. We just set off to see what we would find. Continue reading
I joined the Greenway Birdos for their monthly survey along the Greenway – in a loop from Waratah Mills Light Rail Station.
Here are some of the birds we recorded in the survey – Continue reading
