Yesterday my dad and I went to Afton Street Conservation Preserve. Near the carpark we saw a single australian wood duck. We walked along the ridge slope, seeing heaps of yellow-rumped thornbills, Australian ravens and superb fairy-wrens. We saw a large, grey-brown bird with a red wattlebird that had a white edge to its tail. We were unable to identify this bird, although we suggested that it might have been an extra-large wattlebird (but this bird was way larger than the other wattlebird in the tree), a dove (that's the kind of feeling you get from my image of the bird) or a grey currawong. Warning- the following image of this bird was taken against the sun, so is not of very good quality. Please try to identify this bird for me if you can.
The mystery bird
After seeing the mystery bird, we walked up to the grasslands where we saw two raptors soaring- a whistling kite and a black-shouldered kite. I managed to get images of each, but both were too lousy to show on this blog. Then we tried to photograph a few passerines in the trees at the sand quarry. We didn't succeed.
The mystery bird and the two raptors certainly made this trip worth it!
My dad thinks this bird might be a grey currawong. Do you agree?
ReplyDeleteP.S: It could have been a wattlebird, but there was one in the same tree and it was much smaller than this bird.