Lake Parramatta

Lake Parramatta
Gray Fantail.

A few of us went on an early morning walk around Lake Parramatta on Easter Sunday.

It's a grade 3 track with plenty of small birds. You can find a map of the tracks on the City of Parramatta's website.

Species spotted (our group's first sightings in bold):

  • Australasian Grebe
  • Australian Ibis
  • Australian Magpie
  • Australian Raven
  • Brown Gerygone
  • Brown Thornbill
  • Dusky Moorhen
  • Eastern Yellow Robin
  • Eurasian Coot
  • Golden Whistler
  • Gray Butcherbird
  • Gray Fantail
  • Magpie-lark
  • Noisy Miner
  • Pied Cormorant
  • Pied Currawong
  • Rainbow Lorikeet
  • Red-browed Firetail
  • Rose Robin
  • Silvereye
  • Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
  • Variegated Fairywren
  • White-browed Scrubwren
  • Yellow Thornbill

Today's "Myna of the day" (the most spotted species during the outing) is the Gray Fantail.

Leo also got an early birthday present from Dan.

Thanks Dan! - Leo