I only update the gallery photos occasionally. Sorry about that, too busy. See my Sri Lanka gallery though and also the latest additions to my UK and Denmark galleries.
June 2025
10 June
I walked from Woy Woy to Blackwall alongside Brisbane Water. I found fifteen Caspian Terns; almost allof those were roosting together on a jetty alongside a pair of Australian Pied Oystercatchers. There was another pair of the latter a bit further along (on another jetty) and later I found a group of thirteen Australian Wood Ducks.
6 June
I surveyed three sites in Brisbane Water National Park - the Pearl Caves area and then the Coora Swamp area. There was a Brown Cuckoo-Dove at Pearl Caves - the first one I've had there in quite a while. Once again there were plenty of honeyeaters at Coora Swamp, including a group of four Brown Honeyeaters - I haven't had them at that site before.
5 June
I tried out the Cockle Bay Nature Reserve in the morning but the tracks were even more overgrown than the previous time I went there. I also called in at Empire Bay, where I found two separate pairs of Australian Pied Oystercatchers.
3 June
I had to be in Newcastle in the evening for a discussion about the Broughton Island project. On my way to that, I stopped at the Central Coast Wetlands (near Wyong), then Colongra Swamp Nature Reserve (near Lake Munmorah) and finally at Pirrita Island near Swansea. The birding was quiet everywhere but I had some pleasing raptor views - White-bellied Sea-Eagle, Whistling Kite and Swamp Harrier at the Central Coast Wetlands and then a Black Kite not long before Colongra Swamp NR.