Byron Bay Wetlands are on the north side of Byron Bay township in the Northern Rivers Region of New South Wales. As summer arrives there is a lot of breeding activity underway. We are watching nesting Restless Flycatchers, Lewin’s Honeyeaters, Red-browed Finches, Dusky Moorhen, and Silvereyes. The Horsfield’s Bronze-Cuckoos have arrived and the Shining Bronze-Cuckoos have left? Several Nankeen Night Herons have been active in the area. Rainbow Lorikeets have arrived in force on the park outskirts.
This Horsfield’s Bronze-Cuckoo was busy in the E Cell reedbeds, first calling and then appearing on this small shrub for a photo.
White-cheeked Honeyeaters come and go but are here in numbers right now feeding on the Swamp Banksias in flower.
A large group of young Red-browed Finches were very enthusiatic at feeding time, at times getting in quite a tangle when the parents arrive with food.
A Varied Triller, responsible for a unique call often heard in the wetlands.
There are a least two Nankeen Night Herons in the area, this one is feeling exposed in a burnt patch of marshland bush.
Another regular but not always easy to see, this White-browed Scubwren happily exposed and posed, nicely lit in the early morning light.
Not sure if this material is only for the Silvereye’s nest, or there is a tasty treat wrapped up in this cocoon.
A cloud of Fairy Martins patrol the northern end of Cell E.
Two Wandering Whistling-Ducks have graced the Cell E pond for the last week.