Follow up to Afton Street Conservation Preserve

The 'Riverside Park' area is also a nice place- a good walk and bike ride, a bridge to climb over and two playgrounds for kids/adults (this is if you have a birding family with children), plus a few interesting birds like silver gull, feral pigeon, common myna, crested pigeon... pretty much the usual suspects apart from the cormorants- little pied are the commonest, with the occasional great cormorant (or large flock of great cormorants). Heading in the opposite direction of the Afton Street Conservation Preserve, you may see white-plumed honeyeaters, rainbow lorikeets, silver gulls and welcome swallows. Once I saw a washed-up, half-dead Northern Pacific sea star on the rocks making up the riverbank here.