I visited two venues to see what birds were around. First Barton Park, where I spent most of my time at Landing Lights Wetland, then caught a bus up to St Peters and visited Sydney Park.
Here is how the trip went.
When I walked down the Spring St Canal at Barton Park, I spotted this Little Black Cormorant – Continue reading
Sue joined me for another very good day of bird watching and photography at Nurragingy Reserve at Doonside. This visit, it was a pair of Azure Kingfishers that dominated our day.
I was also fortunate in being able to get some reasonable flight shots.
When we arrived, we first looked at the duck ponds to see what birds were there. We spotted this fresh stinkhorn coming up. Continue reading
I spent an interesting morning at Sydney Park photographing birds. Others had recently seen a Barn Owl and a Boobook Owl at the park, and I wanted to see if they were still around.
Walking down past the ponds, I photographed these Dusky Moorhens – Continue reading
I joined Brian Everingham and party from the National Parks Association of NSW for a nice morning walk along the coast near Bundeena. We stared at the Balconies and walked out to near the White Slab (Wedding Cake Rock or Cheesecake Rock), and then back. We then had a very nice lunch at the Bundeena RSL Club.
Quite a few New Holland Honeyeaters were hunting for insects. Continue reading
Long Reef continues to be a great place for bird photography. In particular – Ospreys.
When I arrived an Osprey was perched on a rock not too far out on the platform. Continue reading
I attended the field trip of the Sydney Fungal Studies Group at Coachwood Glen, on the Megalong Road near Blackheath. Conditions were a bit dry and fungal abundance was not huge, although we did find a wide range of fungi.
Here is some of the fungi (and slime moulds) that we found –
Gloioxanthomyces chromolimoneus
Descolia recedens Continue reading
Bob was keen on a last canyon of the season, and suggested we head up the Bells Line of Road and visit canyon we had both first visited back in October 2019. The canyon is a short distance from Bells Line of Road and is not that well known. Our earlier visit was just before the terrible bushfires of the 2019/20 summer and conditions then were very dry. This time we found the creek had a fair bit more water, although the canyon is so high up in the catchment that the flow would rarely get high.
We followed an access firetrail for a short way then headed off through thick scrub to the creek. we then followed it down to the first abseil. This is very short, but not long after this is a much larger drop. Continue reading
I spent an enjoyable and interesting day at Springwood with Sue, wandering first down Birdwood Gully and then later down Fairy Dell on the other side of the town. We were looking for fungi.
First – Birdwood Gully Continue reading
After the Greenway Bird Survey, I caught a bus to Hen and Chicken Bay at Abbotsford, hoping to see the Bar-tailed Godwits, or at least those that had not yet migrated. The tide was fairly low.
There were still some Godwits, but also some other birds. Here is a Pied Stilt – Continue reading
I took part in the bird survey along the Greenway, from Taberner’s Hill Light Rail Station to Hawthorne Light Rail Station. The group met at 7:30 am.
Here are some of the birds we saw –
It was fairly quiet this time at Taverners Hill. Continue reading
