Bicentennial Park, like many places, is superb at the moment. I spent half
an hour there on the way to work this morning and it was really buzzing.
Some highlights at Lake Belvedere were excellent views of clamorous reed
warbler, all four NSW cormorants, plenty of superb fairy wrens, eastern
rosella, red rumped parrot and a solitary, but quite approachable, glossy
ibis looking lovely (as well as darters, swamp hen, moorhen, eurasian coot,
white plumed honeyeater and all the other regulars).
Round at the hide, the black winged stilt are excavating nests (right in
front of the hide again, in the same place as last year), and there are
plenty of red necked avocet and sharp tailed sandpiper keeping the chestnut
teal company. You can bird there at the moment without even needing
binoculars it's so active close to the hide. But to top it all off a leaden
flycatcher landed in the trees behind the hide and sang his heart out for
about two minutes while I stood straight underneath him.
A perfect birthday present for me!
Alistair
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