early morning sunlight and mist
lorikeet at home – the bush has a quietness and you feel the brooding going on all around you – the brooding of warm eggs and the warmth of hope
so many of these tiny peaflowers emerging – the life forces bursting forth
This possum was being pestered by a mob of little bush birds this morning – brown thornbills, white-browed scrub wrens especially.
Crimson rozellas at home also.
Amazed to encounter a young collared sparrowhawk this morning in dense bush on the ground near my end of FOM. I was only a few metres away. It immediately flew to a few other perches on its way out of the bush giving me a chance to get a blurry photo. I was so surprised to see it in such a place.
Two brown goshawks flying around FOM this morning.
Rose Robin up my end of FOM with a feeding group incl. variegated fairy wrens – the blue of the male so bright – brighter than the superb I think, grey fantails, brown thornbills, white-browed scrub wrens.
Adult Golden Whistler and calling young one following it around Sugarloaf Point. The young one was also catching insects itself I noticed.
Crimson Rozella nest hole.
Wattle seedpods – flowers finish seeds emerge as life cycles continue in the bush.
This morning watched currawong collecting materials for nesting, grey fantails courting rituals, fairy wrens courting, kookaburra nesting in termite mound in tree, crimson rozellas near chosen nest hollow.
Sugarloaf Point mangrove area Lane Cove National Park
Does this look like a frog to you or am I ----
Test: can you draw a frog outline and does this rock fit it?
Ravens – lots of around – particularly the waterhole.
Kookaburras nesting in the same termite nest as the sacred kingfishes last season. Golden Whistlers at Sugarloaf Point full range of calls. The bush ringing with currawong calls and ravens. Various feeding parties with lots a calling.
This morning first calling Fan-tailed Cuckoo Sugarloaf Point bush plus large feeding group including the usual---- brown thornbills, eastern robin, white-browed scrubwren, spotted pardalottes (quite a lot), silvereyes, grey fantail.
No White ibis around in the mangroves, etc. - off to breeding grounds?
Quite a few Crimson Rozellas.
Rainbow lorikeets very quite not much in evidence.
Eastern Whipbirds: there must be about four pairs spread around the Field of Mars now.
Lots of currawongs now around as expected.
