Bird Walk Lane Cove Loop

Registration essential

Date: Sunday 29 September
Time: 7:45 for 8 am
Meet: telephone box, cnr Dehli Road and River Avenue (park on River Road)
Grade: medium, total elevation change 175 m
Distance: 5.3 km (3 h 30 min)
Bring: binoculars (ideally 8 or 10 x 25 optics) and a keen set of eyes and ears!
Leader: Ross Rapmund
Limit: 15 walkers
Contact: Jill Green (0408 470 043)

This walk will focus on the bird diversity found along the Lane Cove River corridor downstream of the tidal weir, including the delightful Mowbray Park area. We'll travel downstream along one side of the river, rising up into a flowering sandstone hillside alive with colour and blossom. We then return to the riverside, cross under the M2, and continue back upstream through the shade of large Coachwoods, before reaching the now reclaimed swampy areas of the historic Fairyland area. Through these diverse vegetation communities such as endangered saltmarsh, riverside mangroves to classic Sydney sandstone woodland, we'll endeavour to spot the rich birdlife that inhabit these fringes of our urban landscape beyond the ubiquitous Noisy Miner!