It was time for another canyon. I headed up the mountains with Bob, with the plan to visit Dargans Creek Canyon. When we stopped for break on the way up at Lawson, the weather was quite cool, and it was a bit grey and misty. But as we approached Bell, the weather improved, and warmed up.
It had been a fair while since we had visited the Dargans Creek Dam Reserve and the canyon, and things had changed a lot. New barriers and fences had gone up. Continue reading
My usual weekly bushwalk or canyoning trip with Bob had been shifted to Friday, so that left Thursday free for an outing. I had been looking att he rainfall data for various places to see if a fungi trip would be worthwhile. A fair bit of rain and been recorded falling at Springwood, so I decided to visit Birdwood Gully.
Rain was forecast in the early afternoon, so I left home before 7 am hoping to get up there at an early hour. But the Blue Mountains trains were running awry, and it took longer than I had anticipated. But in the end – it turned out hot and sunny rather than rain while I was there. At least it was quite cool in the shade of there gully.
The fungi was quite reasonable. Continue reading
I took part in the bird survey along The Greenway, As usual – this survey starts at Taverners Hill Light Rail Station and then continues to finish at Hawthorne Light Rail Station.
At Taverners Hill, it was nice to see a King Parrot –
After the Mudlarks bird survey, I joined three of the participants – Simin, Valerie and Georgie for a visit to Barton Park and Landing Lights Wetland. It was quite hot by this stage of the day – and we didn’t see that many birds, but it was still a worthwhile visit.
Here’re some birds seen at the Wetlands – Continue reading
I had an early start and joined the Mudlarks for their monthly bird survey along the Cooks River. This month the group were surveying upstream from the Lang St Bridge – to the Boat Harbour, then crossing over to the Cup and Saucer Creek Wetlands and then returning downstream on that side.
Here are some of the birds we saw –
Australasian Figbirds
I joined John and his two boys, Jasper and Sebastian, and also Vivienne a friend of Sebastians, for a day at the Australian National Maritime Museum in Darling Harbour.
When we arrived and met up, we headed first to the HMAS Onslow – the submarine. A tour through this is very interesting, but if you leave it too late, then big queues can occur. Continue reading
We had a trip planned to another reserve, but it was cancelled at the last moment, so four of us – Deb, Valerie, Sue and myself decided to visit H V Evatt Park at Lugano, then we made a quick visit to Oatley Park.
Once we arrived at H V Evatt Park, we had lunch at one of the picnic tables, then set off to see what was around the duck pond. There were certainly a lot of domestic ducks as well as Pacific Black Duck. There were also a lot of Water Dragons – Continue reading
I was keen to have another look for the Black-backed Bittern at the Narawang Wetlands at Newington, part of Sydney Olympic Park. So I went back, but again I had no luck spotting the bird. Like the previous visit, I also walked down to the Parramatta River and back.
Here are some of the birds I saw – Continue reading
I headed up the mountains to Mt Wilson with Bob and Doug. The plan was to visit Why Do’t We Do It In The Road Canyon.
We had an excellent day. Setting off from the fire station at Mt Wilson, a short way along the Fire Trail we spotted this nice Diamond Python – Continue reading
I decided to spend a day on the west side of Sydney Olympic Park seeing what birds were around. I started at the Narawang Wetlands and Newington, then walked down the path to Woo-la-ra, then I continued to the river path on the Parramatta River where I had lunch. Then I walked back the same way.
At Narawang Wetlands, I spent a fair bit of time looking for Black-backed Bitterns. Several had been photographed the previous day, but on my visit they were not active at all while I was there. Continue reading
