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SOP Brickpit.

The old quarry on the Sydney Olympic Park site acted as a brick manufacturing plant from 1910 till 1988. Today it is full of water, and home to many waterbirds (and an endangered frog). An 18 metre high circular walkway runs above it, giving a bird’s-eye-view of the birds below. The floating green weed makes for interesting photography.

  • The Dusky Moorhen (Gallinula tenebrosa)
  • Australian Wood Duck (Chenonetta jubata)
  • The Eurasian Coot (Fulica atra)
  • Black Swan (Cygnus atratus)
  • The Purple Swamphen (Porphyrio porphyrio)

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Rhodes to SOP.

After checking out the Peewee Family at Meadowbank Bridge, we rode our bicycles to Sydney Olympic Park via Rhodes. On the edge of Homebush Bay we saw an Australasian Darter (Anhinga novaehollandiae).

We checked out the little thicket of casuarina trees where we had found Yellow Thornbills previously, but no luck.
Cycling around the Badu Wetlands we saw a White-faced Heron (Egreta novaehollandiae).

There was not much action at the bird hide on the northern edge of the wetlands: quite a few Pied Stilts (including some juveniles), and this female Superb Fairy-wren :

  • Himantopus leucocephalus
  • Malurus cyaneus

At the old ship-breaking ramp, another Australasian Darter, a White-faced Heron and a number of Silver Gulls were using the old barge as a perch or a place to find wood-loving insects:

At Haslam’s Pier, we got a nice “aerial” view of a family of Black Swans (Cygnus atratus):