Hi all
after sussing out the holiday weather forecast, it appeared that Friday was
going to offer the best weather for Sydney, so we made the longish drive
from Turramurra (in the city's north) to the Royal National park (in the
south) - a venue that I don't get to often due to the distance. As
expected, the Good Friday traffic was fairly light, which made the drive
bearable and I was birding on the southern end of Lady Carrington Drive by
9:30. After that, we also walked along the Mount Bass fire trail (a new
site for me) and had some time at Audley eating lunch and enjoying the
afternoon sunshine. Highlights were:
Lady Carrington Drive
2 Green Catbirds at Bola Creek
Several groups of Large Billed Scrubwrens, one of which perched about 20
centimetres from my daughter's foot
A Bassian Thrush sitting at eye height on a sunlight branch (it only moved
as I got my camera out)
Several Brown Pigeons and a small flock of Topknot Pigeons
A Superb Lyrebird by the river - but the accompanying small birds were not
Pilotbird but 2 yellow Throated Scrubwren
Lots of honeyeaters - including Scarlets calling strongly, many
Yellow-faceds (passing through?) and some vocal Noisy Friarbirds
Mount Bass
A flock of 80+ Yellow tailed Black Cockatoos
Several pairs of Tawny Crowned Honeyeaters showing well
An Eastern Whipbird right out in the middle of the trail
Audley
a very busy Azure Kingfisher zipping up and down the river
Watching a pair of Kookaburras manoeuvre their way past some picnicker's
defences
A very dark Wood Duck (almost plain chocolate coloured)
Not a huge day and unfortunately, it had got a bit breezy by late morning,
so the smaller birds at Mount Bass were not showing and I only heard one
thin wren like call in a wetter area, which might have been a Southern Emu
Wren. But given the ease of access to this site vs. the walk through to
Curra Moors, definitely worth another go.
Cheers
Tom Wilson
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