I spent some time at Barton Park photographing birds, with a few more photos taken along sections of the Cooks River. Like some previous recent visits, it was a Nankeen Kestrel that provided most of the subject matter.
I started at the Cooks River near the Princes Highway. On the south side I saw a Little Pied Cormorant –
And an Australasian Darter –
At Barton Park, I first went to Landing Lights Wetland. The birds were pretty quiet. Here are some Chestnut Teals –
I then made my way to the old sporting fields. I could see a Nankeen Kestrel perched on a very distant light. As I started walking over, I stopped to photograph some Welcome Swallows –
But when I looked for the Kestrel, it had gone, so I went back to the cycleway. In a westland, a White-faced Heron as hunting –
It looked like it caught a tadpole.
Then at the bridge over the Spring St Canal, I saw a Grey Goshawk flying high.
Then it suddenly looked up.
It had spotted trouble. It was being attacked by the Nankeen Kestrel.
The birds went out of sight. I later saw the Nankeen Kestrel again in the old sporting fields. It was busy hunting.
I spent a fair bit of time watching it.
Here the Kestrel is attacking a Magpie.
Now a Magpie Lark is harassing the Kestrel.
Time to leave the Kestrel. I went back to the Landing Lights Wetland. On the way I saw this White-faced Heron flying up to perch on the sewer vent.
A Superb Fairy-wren had caught a small insect –
Earlier, I had counted 7 Pied Stilts. Now there were more than a dozen. Here are two –
I then walked out to the Cooks River to see if I could spot the Osprey. No sign of it. So I started walking towards home through the Kogarah Golf Course. Here is one of a flock o Red-rumped Parrots –
It ws quiet a Gough Whitlam Park. No sign of the Kingfishers. It may have been too cold? Here is a Little Egret on the far bank –
