We took the Easter/ANZAC week off and headed on a road trip up the East coast of Southern NSW's.
First stop was Tathra and a lovely campsite at Picnic Point in Mimosa Rocks NP.
The first few shots are pretty poor quality and heavily cropped but the first two show a moulting Australasian Gannet,
Morus serrator, that has nearly lost all its juvenile feathers. The third is a Great Comorant,
Phalacrocorax carbo. I watched them for quite some time diving for fish in the turbulent water. They didn't seem to be having much luck.
Walking along the shoreline we encountered a Red-capped Plover.
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| Red-capped Plover, Charadrius ruficapillus |
Numerous Silvereyes and Superb fairy wrens flitted amongst the bushes and were all too quick for my camera except this one.
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| Silvereye, Zosterops lateralis |
Back by our tent, this cheeky Little Raven, Corvus mellori, managed to steal one of our tomatoes. I had never really noticed the feathers on top of the beak before I got these close ups.
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| Little Wattlebird, Anthochaera chrysoptera |
Whilst sitting around the campfire that night we were visited by this interesting little spider. It was as flat as a pancake! It's either a Flat Rock Spider,
Hemicloea major or a female
Morebilus fumosus. Both species look identical to me so I'll leave it up to an expert to make the call.
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| White-bellied Sea Eagle, Haliaeetus leucogaster |
On a walk along the beach in Tathra, we saw White-faced heron, Pied Oystercatcher, Red-capped Plover, Crested Tern and Silver Gulls.
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| White-faced Heron, Egretta novaehollandiae |
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| Pied Oystercatcher, Haematopus longirostris |
Another heavily cropped photo, this time of a juvenile White-bellied Sea Eagle soaring very high in the sky.
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| White-bellied Sea Eagle (juvenile), Haliaeetus leucogaster |
No new spots on this leg of the trip but I was still happy to see such a wide variety of birds.
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