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Exploring Sydney - and further afield.
Patch challenge birding in The Hills Sunday 2 May 2024 Last Sunday I joined Veeraj and Raghav Sharma to go birding through The Hills Shire, which held a bunch of potential new birds for me and was the battle ground for their big year patch challenge with a bunch of other Hills-based birders... -
Exploring Sydney - and further afield.
Patch Birding May 2024 At long last I've managed an addition to my Northbridge list which had stalled since early March in the mid-90s, and provoked me to explore the boundaries of the Willoughby bird reporting area of which Northbridge is a small portion. This morning a Pacific Baza drifted... -
Exploring Sydney - and further afield.
Long Reef continued 12 May 2024 Apologies for the curtailed post ... Old school user error 100% to blame. Anyway, here's the Kelp Gull lording it over the roosting Silver Gulls, Crested Terns and the usual flavours of Cormorant. I missed the tide so was only able to scan from the beach, but... -
Exploring Sydney - and further afield.
Now I've caught up for early May I can continue with my next posts for Long Reef and Willoughby. I'll do Long Reef first. Top bird was the uvenile Kelp Gull that flew in from the north, dropped onto the rocks above the gull and tern roost and then headed of to loiter offshore with a flock of... -
Exploring Sydney - and further afield.
Dee Why & Long Reef Golf Course and Aquatic Reserve 4 May 2024 The last report to catch up on the mess of out of order posts of the last few weeks. I've also experimented with the trip report function in eBird to bring the lists for Dee Why Lagoon and Long Reef Golf Course and Reserve all... -
Exploring Sydney - and further afield.
Seawatching: Shelly Beach Carpark, Manly 1 May 2024 In a period with lots of new patch I somehow managed to miss out on a seawatching session at Manly when I added an Aussie and NSW tick, as well as an additional seawatching patch tick. In ideal late afternoon conditions with fresh... -
Exploring Sydney - and further afield.
Northern Beaches: Manly Reservoir 5 May 2024 This was a long wet walk around the largest body of fresh water on the Northern Beaches. The reservoir runs roughly southeast to northwest away from the dam (1) tapering into a creek bed. It's surrounded by the typical sandstone bushland that's... -
Exploring Sydney - and further afield.
They are indeed Pete. It was odd watching a raptor scrambling about in the upper foliage looking for katydids and stick insects! Other good patch birds recently have included a fine male Rose Robin in a flock of foraging passerines at Scott's Creek (below the north edge of Middle Cove) that... -
Exploring Sydney - and further afield.
Thanks Owen - I did enjoy them, even if they were mere lizards! Patch Gold Photospot: Pacific Baza at Mowbray Park 2 May 2024 A Thursday morning dog walk at Mowbray Park last week not only delivered my highest ever single site score in Willoughby , but gave me my best patch tick of the year in... -
Exploring Sydney - and further afield.
Dee Why and Long Reef Golf Course 25 April 2024 Thursday 25th April was a public holiday in Australia, andI took advantage of the midweek break to chase down a Yellow-billed Spoonbill at Dee Why Lagoon, which was just the fifth record of the Northern Beaches. Unfortunately it kept itself to... -
Exploring Sydney - and further afield.
Thanks Ian - I'm really pleased with the Cormorant shot and owe a big thank you to Veeraj for both the Logrunner and the Speckled Warblers, which were among my top targets in Sydney birding. Personally I generally prefer the in-habitat shots to the "bird on a plain bokeh background", but the... -
Exploring Sydney - and further afield.
Manly and Long Reef 20 and 21 April 2024 I was back on the Northern Beaches for a couple of days of seawatching at my usual spot at Shelly Beach carpark in Manly. Although e southerly winds looked promising I was a little disappointed with my return - a couple of White-capped and four... -
Exploring Sydney - and further afield.
Patch birding : Mowbray Park and Northbridge April 2024 A few nuggets of patch gold over the last few days included the addition of a flyover Plumed Egret (101), Striated Thornbill (102) and a lovely adult male Rose Robin (103) in the swamp forest at Mowbray Park. I was pleased to grab old... -
Exploring Sydney - and further afield.
Many thanks Matt. Patch posting is indeed a labour of love, but I enjoy the process for helping me to recall the day in the field as I put the post together and for having a tangible record. Delighted that it may be useful too. Northern Beaches: Red Hill, Deep Creek and Long Reef Saturday 13... -
Exploring Sydney - and further afield.
Northern Beaches: Red Hill, Deep Creek and Long Reef Saturday 13 April 2024 I decided to keep it relatively local on Saturday by birding a few areas of the Northern Beaches that are just a 30 minute drive from home. I started at Red Hill (1), which is a known site for Brush Bronzewing... -
Exploring Sydney - and further afield.
Photospot: Australian Ibis at Mowbray Park 8 April 2024 The day after bringing up the Willoughby Ton I returned to Mowbray Park to explore the river walk that heads east between the mangroves and a low-lying casuarina stand before turning north past Chatswood Golf Course. While I picked... -
Exploring Sydney - and further afield.
Mowbray Park, Willoughby 7 April 2024 After adding Crimson Rosella to my Willoughby list last weekend I decided to stop off for a break on my way back from birding out west. This proved to be a good move as I added Yellow-Thornbill and White-throated Treecreeper in the riverside trees above... -
Exploring Sydney - and further afield.
Wianamatta and Windsor Downs 7 April 2024 Viraj Sharma and I visited a couple of the relict lowland woodlands on the Cumberland Plain after being thwarted in our plans to visit Pitt Town Lagoon and a site in the Hawkesbury catchment for Chestnut Quail Thrush, Brush Bronzewing and Painted... -
Exploring Sydney - and further afield.
Central Coast Farmlands: Palm Grove and Palmdale Sunday 31 March 2024 Another productive visit to the Central Coast started with a visit to Palm Grove - the neighbouring valley to Palmdale, which receives much less coverage. It's three to four times the length of Palmdale. This was the first... -
Exploring Sydney - and further afield.
Northbridge Patch birding 1-3 April 2024 The thing about Peregrines is that they rarely hang around - so all it takes is to be looking the wrong way and you miss it. I'm sure I'll connect sooner rather than later Pete. No new patch birds today, but I did have a record count of 35 Maned Ducks... -
Exploring Sydney - and further afield.
Thanks Pete - totally agree. I've had one fly past my office window a few times. This has no view of the sky. If its possible there its possible anywhere! I had species 98 today by visiting Mowbray Park, which is on the far western side of Willoughby in the Lane Cove area. This was a rather... -
Exploring Sydney - and further afield.
Northbridge Patch Birding January - March 2024 Having steamed out to 96 species in less than five months, my patch birding settled into a quieter pattern in the first three of months of 2024. It mostly took the form of walks round the golf course and Tunks Park, with occasional forays to... -
Exploring Sydney - and further afield.
Long Reef Golf Course and Aquatic Reserve II January & February 2023 The main reason for several subsequent visits was to seawatch during the southerly and southwesterly winds. This was a bit of a mixed bag, with lots of passage of Wedge-tailed Shearwaters in the hundreds and even thousands... -
Exploring Sydney - and further afield.
Long Reef Golf Course and Aquatic Reserve January & February 2023 I'm long overdue to post on a series of visits to Long Reef Golf Course and Aquatic Reserve that began with a failed twitch to find a Bush Stone Curlew at Palm Beach with Veeraj Sharma on 21st February. We did better at Long... -
Exploring Sydney - and further afield.
Filthy Twitching: Black-necked Storks at MacPherson Swamp, Wyong 25 February 2024 Yesterday I made what I think is now my fourth visit to look for Black-necked Storks in the Central Coast Wetlands. On my last visit I failed but found compensation in my first Striped Honeyeaters. The storks...