Bob had been keen to explore the coast near Cave Beach for a while. This time, the tide was going to be low, so we set off up to the Central Coast.
When we arrived at the carpark at Caves Beach, I noticed a Black-shouldered Kite sitting at the to of a nearby tree, so out came the camera. Continue reading
I spent an interesting day in the Eastern Suburbs photographing birds. I started at Centennial Park and then in the afternoon headed out to Dover Heights and walked along the Coastal Track to Watsons Bay.
At Centennial Park, a lot of birds were out and active. Here are some – Continue reading
I made a visit to Nurragingy Reserve at Doonside. I was intending to look for honeyeaters, but instead concentrated on photographing a pair of Azure Kingfishers. But there were also a lot of other interesting birds to see.
I arrived fairly early, about 8:15 am, and first headed to where I had seen an Azure Kingfisher on some previous visits. I spotted it straight away, and managed to get some reasonable photos of it perched and also hunting for fish. Continue reading
I headed up to the Chiltern Trail at Ingleside to see how many honeyeaters had returned for winter. Things were a bit quiet and I didn’t see too many, and those I did see where a bit elusive for photos.
There seemed to be a fair number of Yellow-faced Honeyeaters. Continue reading
This was one of my regular walks along the Lane Cove Valley looking for and photographing fungi. On this trip, I started from Thornleigh, and walked down Lorna Pass via the Great North Walk track and continued down the river to the DeBurgh Bridge which I crossed, then a loop along the Riverside Track to Porters Creek and back along the road to Lane Cove Road, and out to Macquarie Park Station.
Perhaps Hydnellum fraudulentum
There was not a super abundance of fungi, but what I did find was most interesting. Higher up were quite a few boletes. Here is one – Continue reading
I spent a nice day at Oatley Park. My main aim was to try and find the Collared Sparrowhawk that had been seen in the area. I did see it, but had no luck photographing it. But quite a few other birds were around.
Yellow-faced Honeyeater
I also spotted the Ospreys. They roost on trees on the far side of Lime Kiln Bay and are a long way off for photography. One of then was eating a fish. Continue reading
I spent a nice day out at Landing Lights Wetland at Barton Park. I cycled there along the cycleways and arrived mid morning.
Brown Honeyeater
Many of the usual birds were there – Black-winged Stilts and a variety of ducks. At first I could not see any Black-fronted Dotterels. But moving around I spotted four of them. I was lucky to get reasonable shots on one of them in flight. Continue reading
After finding lots of interesting fungi the day before, I thought it about time I headed up to Lawson and Hazelbrook to look for fungi. It had been a while since I had been to the waterfalls south of Lawson and the Terrace Falls area south of Hazelbrook. They can be linked conveniently.
Gloeocantharellus novae-zelandiae
I started at Lawson, and walked down to the top carpark for the waterfall loop. I was soon at Adelina Falls. I didn’t find much fungi there, but did manage to spot some Mycena – Continue reading
I had a very interesting trip down Sassafras Gully to looks for and photograph the fungi. Despite it being fairly dry recently, there was a reasonable amount of fungi out. On this trip, I started down the track from the end of Sassafras Gully Road, walked down to Glenbrook Creek and returned via Magdala Creek and Fairy Dell.
Here is a selection of what I saw. First a few specific examples of boletes – Continue reading
I had been talking to friends about my recent visits to the Zoo, and they decided to make a visit of their own and invited me to join them. In the group were John, his two young sons Jasper and Sebastian and their Nana, Sue. Being school holidays, it was very crowded, but we still all had a great day.
Here are some of the animals we saw – Continue reading
