breeding gulls & finches

Short strolls at Acacia Inlet and Yarramundi
Inlet at lunch today produced a single nesting pair of Silver Gulls on
the pontoon in Acacia Inlet and a pair of Red-browed Finches building a
nest in a Cork Oak, visible from Barrenjoey Drive. The female gull on the
nest greeted the returning male while I watched.

I was first alerted to the redbrows
by a bird flying along trailing a long green grass stalk. While this bird
flew back and forth from the cork oak to a patch of regenerating bushland
some 10 metres away, its partner sat close by the almost complete nest
preening itself. I wonder which was the male?

An old faded sign near the bike path
states that the 'Yarramundi Inlet Wetlands' are a breeding spot of the
Musk Duck. I wonder when this species last bred here?

Cheers
Marnix


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